This is an analysis of the poem You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day that begins with:
You smile upon your friend to-day,
To-day his ills are over; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 0101110 11000101 1100010 11010101 1101110 11110101 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, late are repeated.
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