This is an analysis of the poem The Way To Make Friends that begins with:
THE way to make friends is as easy
As breathing the fresh morning air;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabaXa XcdcXXceXbdcdbcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110110 11001101 000110010 01101111 0101100110 01011001 010010010 100001101 010110001 01101011 011011010 01001011 011110010 11001101 0011111110 11101001 010010110 01011111 110111010 01011001 011010110 11101101 110011011 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, be are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Way To Make Friends;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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