This is an analysis of the poem Friendship that begins with:

I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaX cdcce cfgch afaai jXjjd jejjX dXddg kjkke lkllX bhbbi bdbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011111 100101 111101 110101 11011 1101001111 110100 110111 101001 1101 1111111010 110101 110110 110101 1101 1001011101 110111 110111 010101 1101 0111011100 101101 110101 111101 0100 1101110101 111101 111101 110001 01000 1101011111 101010 011001 010101 0100 1111011101 101111 101111 111111 1111 0111011101 101111 1101001 010101 1000 1101111111 010101 110111 110101 1111 0111011101 101101 010111 111001 1000
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and, i, may, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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