Analysis of Two Women
I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winters waste,
Stainless ever I act and thought
(As a man, born dumb, in speech errs not) .
But she has malice toward her kind,
A cruel tongue and a jealous mind.
Void of pity and full of greed,
She judges the world by her narrow creed;
A brewer of quarrels, a breeder of hate,
Yet she holds the key to ‘Society’s’ Gate.
The other woman, with heart of flame,
Went mad for a love that marred her name:
And out of the grave of her murdered faith
She rose like a soul that has passed through death.
Her aims are noble, her pity so broad,
It covers the world like the mercy of God.
A soother of discord, a healer of woes,
Peace follows her footsteps wherever she goes.
The worthier life of the two, no doubt,
And yet ‘Society’ locks her out.
Scheme | AAXXBBCCDD EEXXXXFFGG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111100111 0110110101 10101101 101110111 111100101 010100101 11100111 1100110101 01011001011 11101111 010101111 111011101 0110110101 1110111111 0111001011 11001101011 0111001011 1100101011 0100110111 010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 305 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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