This is an analysis of the poem The Friendly Greeting that begins with:
Oh, we have friends in England, and we have friends in France,
And should we have to travel there through some strange circumstance,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111101 11110101111101 01011101110111 01010110110111 110010111110101 11011101110101 11110101111101 111101111000111 111101011100111 01010101111111 11111101110101 01011001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, should, have, and, he are repeated.
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- summary of The Friendly Greeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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