This is an analysis of the poem The Temple Of Friendship that begins with:
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,
Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal all alone, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cde cdf gah cba idj ajh akb def baf bfi clf afe eae fdb aba ahX mhh maX kmX lkd iee eXXXabg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001001010100101 10101111010101 1000101 010010011101101 00111111010101 111101 11010100100101 00101111010001 011101 010110011010101 01001111100111 10011 10111101011001 10111011110101 1101101 11001110010101 01001011100101 010101 011111110100111 10101010010111 010101 111100100101101 1010010110100101 110101 111010111111101 111111000101101 110101 110110100100101 101011111001001 110111 11001111110101 1110010100101111 1111111 0010110100110101 11101000101101 1001101 11000110111111 10111111001101011 1100101 10101011011111 0110100111111001 010101 1011010111101101 110010111001001 110101 101001011110111 11011011101111 1111101 101001111110101 11001011111101 11011010 11101110110101 11001011111101 1110101 111111111001011 101001111101110 0010111 1111111011110101 10111111101111 111111 1101101001011000 101010100100101 1101111 110110101010010101 11001111101101 0100101 110100111110101 11101001111101001 00101101 10101110110100101 101011110100101 00100
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, they, as, her, she, ', for, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and are repeated.
The author used the same words they, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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