This is an analysis of the poem Three Friends that begins with:
Oh, not to you, my mentor sweet,
And stern as only sweetness can,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bdad ebdX fgag hafa afiX ffXf jbXb dbab XXah fjdj ecbh daba adXd iiXX Xfbf bdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 11111110 011101 11100101 100110111 10110101 100101 11010111 11111110 11010011 111111 101011101 11111101 11010111 110111 11011101 110100111 11010101 010101 11010001 11011100 10111101 011100 11110101 01011101 101101000 110111 111110101 01010101 11010100 011101 10010111 01111101 11011111 110111 11010101 11011100 110111101 110111 11100111 01111111 11111111 110101 11110111 11010100 11010101 110100 01110111 100010101 11111101 111111 01110111 11011111 01110110 110001 10011111 10010101 11010100 1101010 10010011 11011110 11010100 010100 01110101 01010111 110101111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, its, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Three Friends;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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