This is an analysis of the poem When You Know A Fellow that begins with:
When you get to know a fellow, know his joys and know his cares,
When you've come to understand him and the burdens that he bears,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb ccddee bbffccXbbccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101011101 111010111010111 111011101010001 1111101001111101 110111001111101 001011111110101 111010100010101 111010101111101 1110001011111001 111010100011111 111010101111101 11011101010101 1110101010100111 101010100010101 101010111110111 101010111000101 101010101011101 111010101111101 11110101110101 11011101010101 101010101110001 111010110111101 111010101110101 101110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; when, and, you, know, his, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, you are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of When You Know A Fellow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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