This is an analysis of the poem Description Of A Lost Friend that begins with:
FROM THE MORNING POST.
LOST--near the 'Change in the city, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXaccddXXeeccffgghhiiggjjggkXiikkggllggmmnniiaaffggggddjjllaaffmmffllmmooddaaffhhiiaaaakkooddooddppccjjffggnnff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,112,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101 11010010 111011110 110111010 001011110 0111001 0101001 01101111 10110101 1010101 101001001 0100101 0010001 01001011 10101011 1111101 111101 11011111 0100001 101010010 11011110 0101110 10110010 1110111 110101 1010101 1011101 11001010 1011010 11010010 1111110 11111010 01011010 0010101 1110101 1110111010 10010010 111011001 0101101 110111010 11100010 11001010 10101010 111101 1010111 1111110 11001110 0111011 0101101 111101 1101011 0111001 1111100 111011001 11011001 01001001 1101111 01001001 1111100 11001101 0111101 11011001 0110101 01101011 011101001 101001011 101101001 011011111 11011001 1100111 00100111 01111011 10101001 10110101 10111101 11001011 111011011 111001111 111011101 101111111 111111011 1111001010 1111110110 110111010 1110001110 01011101 101001101 11001001 111011111 01011111 01101001 011001111 11011011 111011001 111011101 11111101 11011001 11011101 011101011 11001001 101011101 111101011 111111001 11011101 11011011 11101011 11111011 111110010 110110010 101111111 101111101 111011011 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1946
- Average number of words per stanza: 377
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, he, his, my, i, when, miss are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, when, i are repeated.
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