This is an analysis of the poem Companions - A Tale Of A Grandfather that begins with:
I KNOW not of what we ponder’d
Or made pretty pretence to talk, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaba cdcdXd ebebbX fgfgag fhfhgh fgfgXg dididiXcecece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11101001 101011110 10110111 1011010001010 10111101 11001010 10101101 11001010 10110101 0010111111 1100101 10101111 0110101 101011111 10100101 1100111111 1110111 01101010 11110111 01101010 11110101 11100101101 1100101 101110110 0110111 101001110 1101111 11011101111 101100101 11111110 110000111 111001010 1101101 1111100101 0110101 11111110 10101111 11001110 11101101 0111111111 1101101 111001010 10101111 111001110 111110101 10110111110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, i 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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