This is an analysis of the poem Friendship that begins with:
I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool,
And yet I took him in; for I contended,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdeb XafdcgbXecX gfhh faeehhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010011 11111011010 11110100110 1101010101 11110100010 1111010101 11101101110 1111 11110011010 1110010101 11001001110 1101010101 11011100010 1001010001 1011011101 1011000101 1111010100 1101110100 1011011101 1100110101 10010101010 1111011101 1110001 1111000101 1111110101 11010101010 1100010011 10110101010 1101001100 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ass is repeated).
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- summary of Friendship;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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