This is an analysis of the poem Key To Friendship that begins with:
The key to friendship
Is not in the hand you hold...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abb cc dd ee ff Agg baX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 0100111 111101 0100111 110101 011110101 11011011 01001010 1001110 010010 11101110110 01010 010110010 101101010 111101101 110101010 110011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, not, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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