This is an analysis of the poem The Faithful Friend that begins with:
O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe,
Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, with footsteps sad and slow? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff cccc ffggffcffhhaacceX iijjeeaacc jXff cciikkjjbbjj bb bbllXimmjjcchhjj eemmiikkeeffnnXccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,17,10,4,12,2,16,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111010111 11110111011111 11110101111101 11010100010001 11111111110101 1101110111101 110111011110001 00110001010101 11010111110101 111111001011101 110001111111001 11000101011101 11011100010101 11010101101101 11010101110011 11011101111101 11011001111111 11010101011101 11110101011101 10011101110001 11011111111101 11010101010101 110010100010101 101111011100010 1100101011101010 11010111110111 01010100100101 11010100110111 01010101110101 11011101010001 11110001111101 110111000111110 11011011110100 01011110111010 11011101010011 11110101110011 01111101110001 11010100011111 11110111110101 1111010110111 11010101111001 11000101111111 101010101010101 11011111011101 11010101110111 11011101110101 001001101110001 10111111110111 101101000101001 11011101110101 001100011110001 11010101010101 11000101110001 11100111111001 01110111001001 11110101111101 11010101100101 100101010111001 11111111100101 11010011010101 01001111110011 11111101110111 01111101110101 11010101110101 11111101010101 01010101110110 11011100110111 01111101110011 11011111011001 10011101110101 01011001111101 11010101111101 11111101110011 11111101110101 01010101110101 01110111111101 11011011110111 11011101111101 110111111101101 11110100110101 11110101110101 11011101011101 11010101010011 11011111010101 111111011010011 11111101110101 11011111010101 110100101111101 11010101111101 110111111111010 111111110101010 11110101110101 11110111110101 111100101111111 111010100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, whose, and, that, of, thy, no, i, my, but, want are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words know'st, whose, i, that, and, no, nor, a, but are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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