This is an analysis of the poem To An Old Friend that begins with:
When we have lived our little lives and wandered all their byways through,
When we've seen all that we shall see and finished all that we must do,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111011111 1111111111011111 1111110111011101 1111101111101101 1111010101010101 1100010111010101 1101111101011101 1001110111010101 1111111111110011 11010111011111101 1111010111011101 11110101110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, that, when, all, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, i are repeated.
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- summary of To An Old Friend;
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