This is an analysis of the poem A Dead Friend that begins with:
I.
Gone, O gentle heart and true,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc cbc bcbc X dddX dXd dddd X efef fef efef X Xbdb bdb dbdb a gdgd dgd gdgd a ebeb beb ebeb X cece eceXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110111 10111 1110101 1 10111 1111101 11101 1111111 11111 1011111 1 1 10100101 11101 01110111 1 11101 1011000 10101 1011101 11101 1111111 1 1 1011111 10101 1111101 1 11111 1011111 10111 10010111 111001 1111111 1 1 11101010 111001 10100111 1 11101 1011111 11101 1110111 11111 1110111 1 1 11101101 11101 11110111 1 11111 10101011 11101 1111111 11101 1011111 1 1 1111101 11111 1010101 1 11111 10011101 11111 1111101 11111 10101111 1 1 1110111 10111 1011111 1 101001 1110111 11111 1111101 11111 1110001 1
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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