This is an analysis of the poem Songs With Preludes: Friendship that begins with:
ON A SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY HIS
WIFE TO THEIR FRIEND.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cda eabffdgfccdgahfffXaidbj kbfbf Xhfhf XjXje Xlklk kfbfb kkkkk Xiiii Xghgh Xefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,23,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101100010110 1011 1001111111 0101101100 1101010111 1101010011 1101010101 1100111111 1111011101 1111011111 1101110111 0111111101 1111011101 1101011101 1111000101 1111111111 0110110111 1011011111 0101011011 1101010 111 0101111111 1101010111 1101011101 10010001001 1011001101 1111110101 11011 1 111011111 1111111 010110101 11110101 1 111101101 11111001 011101011 1100101 1 011101101 1111010 010110101 0100101 1 110100111 0111001 110011101 1101101 1 111101101 1111101 111110101 1101001 1 111011110 1011111 010110111 0100101 1 100110111 1100101 101111001 0111001 1 101110111 0111001 111101101 1010111 1 1111111001 1110111 1111101111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; matter, on, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, to, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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