This is an analysis of the poem To My Friends that begins with:
These are songs of the Friends I neglected—
And the Foes, too, in part;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011010 101101 1111010010 11011 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; songs is repeated.
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