This is an analysis of the poem My Friend that begins with:
MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own,
And a musical tongue has he; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebfb Xghgbefe gcXcabbd hgbXXeXe XbhbeeceXegbgebed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110101001 10100111 111101101 11100100 01111111 1100111 111111101 111101 1011110111 11101001 111100100 110101 111111111 0010101 1011100101 0010001 011101111 1101101 111101111 1100111 11111111 011110 111101111 1100100 110110101 1100101 10111100 1101100 111100111 1101101 110101100 1110101 111101111 1101011 110111111 111101 11111111 0011111 110100111 0010101 111101111 0011111 110100111 1100111 111101111 1101101 10111111 00101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, that, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of My Friend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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