This is an analysis of the poem A Sentiment that begins with:
The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,
Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbfXggcXbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101000101 110011100101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 11010001101 1001101001 11010010101 1101010111 10011010101 1001010111 01011100101 1101000101 1011010001 11110100100 1001110111 11010100111 1101000101 1111000101 01110100101 1101011111 101100100111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1122
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of is repeated.
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