This is an analysis of the poem The Value Of Friendship that begins with:
The woodmen's blows responsive ring,
As on the trees they fall;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdeXbebefgfg hbhbgcgcXfdffhfhgiei bbbXhehehjgjcdcdkfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110111 11011111 101101 00110101 110101 11011101 100101 01110101 010101 111111101 110111 11010101 110001 11001111 010111 11010111 011111 11110111 111111 11111101 010111 01111111 111101 110101000 110101 11001101 110101 11110111 10101 11010101 110101 11011101 110111 11010100 111111 10110111 110000 11010101 101110 10110101 010101 01111101 010101 01010101 010111 11010111 010111 11010011 011001 11001101 110101 11011001 110001 10001101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i've, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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