This is an analysis of the poem The Making Of Friends that begins with:
If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along,
If each every minute looked after himself and good things all went to the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdC XeeeXcc dfgfccdC XeXegfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011111111111111101 0110001110011011100 1 0111110101111111011 1111010010011010110 10 010110110100110100 10001 0111010010010101101 1 110011010011100101 1 11011001001101011010 10101101011111010 11 110110011010011010 11 010010010011111011 11 110110110111010110 10 1011010011111011 01011 1101110100110100101 1 01011011101111110 01 1010011110110100 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; nobody, and, if, we, because, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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