This is an analysis of the poem A Family Row that begins with:
I freely confess there are good friends of mine,
With whom we are often invited to dine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXc ddeebbcc bbaaffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110101 01111001001 11111111101 11011001011 111101011001 11111111010 11101001011 11101101001 101001001001 11111011001 111001101101 101101111011 111101011011 11111111101 01101001011 11101101001 001001011101 111111011001 01011001001 11101111011 11101011101 111111001111 01001001011 111111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; my, to, and, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word row at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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