This is an analysis of the poem First Name Friends that begins with:
Though some may yearn for titles great, and seek the frills of fame,
I do not care to have an extra handle to my name....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcc bbddee ddffbb ggeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111101110101 11110111010011 11110101011100 1111010101011 11010101101001 01111101010111 110101000110101 110100100011111 010100110110101 01011101110101 101001001110101 11011100110101 01011100110101 01110101111101 01010101101111 11110001111111 11111111110101 11100100001111 010011111010101 11010111010101 00010001111101 11110101111101 11111111011101 110101000010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, not, i, and, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word friends at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of First Name Friends;
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