This is an analysis of the poem The Old Familiar Faces that begins with:
I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaA baA cdA cXa eXa dba XeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111010 011011011011 11110101010 11010110010 101101011010 11110101010 11011100110 11011111110 11110101010 11010101111 11101111010 110110101010 11111010111 11010111010 10010101010 10110111010 11111011010 111100101010 11111111111 111100111010 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, have, friend, some 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.
The poet repeated the same word faces at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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