This is an analysis of the poem Tom Van Arden that begins with:
Tom Van Arden, my old friend,
Our warm fellowship is one... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababccdd cececcaA Ababffgg hbhbeeaA AaaafXbb fafaeeaA Aiaiddii jdj deXaA Ahahiicc kfkfccaAXAbabccaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,3,5,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011110 0110111 1010101 1110101 1110101 1010001 0110101 1010101 0011111 1110101 0010101 1011101 1110111 1110111 1010111 1111101 0111111 1000101 1100100 1010101 1111101 11101010 1111101 11100010 1110101 0010111 1110100 1110101 1110111 1110111 1110101 1111101 0010111 101101 101100 0011101 1110001 1010100 1011101 1110001 0010111 1010101 1010101 1110111 1110111 1110111 1110101 1010101 1011100 1011101 1010101 11100101 1010101 1111101 1001101 0010101 1111001 1111101 1001111 1011101 1110111 1110111 11101110 1010111 01101010 1110101 1010001 1011101 0100011 1011101 1010001 1110101 1010001 1010101 1011101 1010001 1110111 1110111 1010101 10100101 1010001 1010101 1111101 1111011 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; we, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tom, are are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines friend 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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