This is an analysis of the poem Fable L: The Hare And Many Friends that begins with:

Friendship, as love, is but a name,
Save in a concentrated flame; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbbddeeffggXX hheX iiiijjhhbX XfhX eeX jX XggggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,4,10,4,3,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 10010101 11010101 11111111 01100101 11010001 11110001 110010101 11011101 11000101 10011101 01011101 11010101 11000101 11000101 11011101 11011111 111101111 01010101 01110111 01000101 01010001 11010101 01010101 10110111 11011111 11010001 11010101 11010001 11011111 01010101 11111110 01010101 10010001 10011111 010101100 01011111 01111001 100111101 11011001 111111111 1111010010 010111110 110100010 11111011 11111111 11011101 01011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; me, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', it are repeated).

    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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  • summary of Fable L: The Hare And Many Friends;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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