This is an analysis of the poem The Friendly Meeting that begins with:

IN spreading mantle to my chin concealed,
I trod the rocky path, so steep and grey,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacadcad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101001101 1101011111 1001011111 01000111010 1101010101 01010100101 1011000101 0101110111 1111111101 1101010111 1101110011 1100110111 1101110111 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, my are repeated.

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  • summary of The Friendly Meeting;
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