This is an analysis of the poem The Last Meeting that begins with:
We had once been close and warm friends…. But an unlucky moment came…
and we parted as enemies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cd c a ecXebbX Xde d XXf XXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,1,7,3,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111111010101 11101100 1001111000111111 111100111011 11110110001111 1101111101101 10100101001011111 010101100110111101 0100101100111010100 11111000101011010 010011100101011110 01010111100101000101 111110100 1111111010111110100 10110101011000011111 1 1010110110111101 010110110100111100 111001010111100 1001101010111 0101111111011110 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him, of, his, my, to, me, that, it, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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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