This is an analysis of the poem Companions that begins with:
The bread that's broken when we eat together
Tastes sweet. A sunbeam stealing to your hand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcXdefaXdeebbdghXfgghcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110111010 1101110011 11010101010 0111011101 0111011111 1001100101 1100111111 01101010001 1011010111 1001011111 11110101001 01011001110 1101110001 11001011111 11010101001 1101110011 1111100101 1001010111 0101111101 1111110011 100100101001 00101111000 00101010101 10101000001 00011011101 00101110011 0101001101 110001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1262
- Average number of words per stanza: 232
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Companions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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