This is an analysis of the poem And You, My Friends Who Have Been Called Away that begins with:

And you, my friends who have been called away,
I have been spared to mourn for you and weep,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabXXcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101011111 1101011101100 101001010111 1111 1110100 11111 1011 0100101110101 01001111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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