This is an analysis of the poem I Should Not Dare To Leave My Friend that begins with:
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I should not dare to leave my friend,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110111 1000000111 1111000100100 110111010 01110101 11000010010 11110101 1100001001010 01110101 111100011100 0100000000010 10110100 1111011000 1101001010 010111010 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i 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 me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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