This is an analysis of the poem Friendship that begins with:
You can buy, if you've got money, all you need to drink and eat,
You can pay for bread and honey, and can keep your palate sweet. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXcbb ddee ccee ffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101110111 111111101111101 111010111110111 101010101111101 111011101110101 11101110111 1111 111010101110101 11010101110111 101111101011101 111110111110011 111011101110011 101010100010101 01011101010101 101111101110101 111011101010111 011011101110101 011010101011101 101000101010101 110010101010001 101010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; you, and, can, to, when, for, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, if are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Friendship;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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