This is an analysis of the poem On A Hollow Friendship that begins with:
A bitter cheat!—and here at length it ends—
And thou and I, who were to one another... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdeefccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101111101 11111001010 11011100010 1101011101 1001011111 0111110101 1011011101 1000110101 1111111101 11001011001 10011111111 1101011111 1001110011 01011101101 111111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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