This is an analysis of the poem Three Friends Of Mine that begins with:
When I remember them, those friends of mine,
Who are no longer here, the noble three,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde XaccaXccXfbgfbg Xhbbhhbbhacgacg XicciiccigcagcaXbdccddccdhgbhgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,15,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 1111010101 1111011101 11101101001 1101010001 1011001111 011011110 0101010101 0111110111 1101010101 10010100111 1001001001 01010011101 01110101001 1 0100111110 101011101 0100110010 1101110101 1111011100 0111110101 1010111101 1101010010 1111010101 11001000101 1001110101 1111010101 1111011101 1111011111 1 1101100101 1101000101 1001010101 1101011101 0101110101 0110011101 1100010101 1111011111 1111011101 1100110001 1011011111 10010010111 1100010101 1111011101 1 1011001101 0101000111 0111111111 1111000101 1011101101 1101110101 1101111101 1111010111 0101111111 0101111001 1111111101 11110111101 1101010111 0101010111 1 0111110101 0101110101 1101010101 11001011101 1111001101 010101001001 1011000111 0101100101 1101110111 1101110101 0111001111 11010011011 1001010111 1100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thee, and, why, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the are repeated.
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- summary of Three Friends Of Mine;
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