This is an analysis of the poem Three Dead Friends that begins with:
Always suddenly they are gone--
The friends we trusted and held secure--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbbcb dbdefgafga cbhbfaffaf gagaifhiXh dfdfiijXij klkldikdik dmdminaXna kmkXediedi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100111 011101101 10011101 1010110101 110011101 001010101 011110111 1110100101 0100110111 100100101 11110101 100110001 111100101 10101001010 11110101 110011101 101010101 011111111 11111101 1110110101 1010111111 10111101 100111100 110101111 11110101 111010111 11101111 1010100101 1010100111 10111001001 110011101 10101101 1011100101 00100100001 101100111 1110100111 110100100 1100110111 1011100101 010101100 1100100111 010100101 0011110111 11101101 111110111 110011101 10010101 1000110100 1011100101 0100100111 110110101 110100111 011111101 1010110101 011111101 11011101 010110101 11011111 0001101001 1100100111 100111101 110101101 100110111 011100101 10011111 1100111111 0110100111 1110110110 1011110111 110100111 10111101 11101101 011100101 111011100 1011111010 110110111 110101101 010010010010 111111101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, you, to, and, your, we, one, with, her, hate, his, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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