This is an analysis of the poem Friendship that begins with:
Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content,
Needs not the laws it has laborious been...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdbb ddddee fafaff ghghbb gigijj bdbdfk aXaell dmdmnnXfdfdfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010010 11010101000 0101010001 0101100101 1011011101 0101011101 0101101101 11001000101 101010101 1001010101 110100010001 1111000101 0101110111 1101010101 10111101111 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1011011111 1101011101 1101011111 0101010011 0101110100 1111100101 11110111001 1001001111 0111011101 01011100101 10011001010 010010100010 1011011101 00010010101 0111110001 1111001101 0111000101 0101111101 0101001101 1001110111 1111010101 11110100001 1101000110 1010111100 1111010111 1111111110 0101010111 1101010011 11010101010 11110101010 11011100101 0011000101 1011010101 11011010111 1011101101 0101110111 1011010101 1101111101 011000101 1100010101 1001111101 1001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, should, we, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Friendship;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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