This is an analysis of the poem The Friend that begins with:
There are lots and lots of people who are always asking things,
Like Dates and Pounds-and-ounces and the names of funny Kings,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101111101 11111101010101 101011101010101 111111100110101 11111100111101 11111101110101 11010101010100 10110110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, right, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Friend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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