This is an analysis of the poem Friends Within The Darkness that begins with:
I can remember starving in a
small room in a strange city ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXcXXdX ecc bcdfdffgg ad XaXfeecfe Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,9,2,9,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101000 1100110 1111000 10010 111111101101 01 011110100010111 1100 101101001111001 10001 01010101100 10010111011 101 1001110110100 010010111101 0100 1 111011 101110110 11101110 10 110 111101000100 10 11101110 101110 1 110 11 011110010001001 101 10001 1110 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; men is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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