This is an analysis of the poem Where Has He Gone, My Dearest Friend that begins with:
Where has he gone, my dearest friend,
My heart's mainstay, my lord of love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bcd eaX bce fXd XcX bXf X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11111101 1010111001 11110111 111011101 110100111 1011101 0101011010 110110001 1011101 11011101 110011100 00101111011 1101011111 11011010101 01110111 1101011101 11100110101 1100111 011010101 10110101 0101100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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