This is an analysis of the poem Everyone's Friend that begins with:

“Nobody's enemy save his own”—
(What shall it be in the end?)—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaBabaB cbcB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100101 1100001 11011101 10001 100100101 1111001 100100101 10001 100100111 1001 1110101101 10001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; s is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word friend at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Everyone's Friend;
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