This is an analysis of the poem To My Friends And Critics that begins with:
Come all you friends and critics,
And listen to my song,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcec afXfgcec ehXceede dihieebe fcXcXgfg Xjejgjaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 110011 0110101 001111 0101011 110101 10100110 1111101 0111110 1010001 0111110 0111101 0100110 110101 1001010 1110101 0111010 0101101 1111010 010101 11000010 110101 01010011 1110101 01011011 0110111 11010101 110101 10101100 110101 1001110 011001 0100010 010101 1101101 010101 110111000 001010011 11110101 0010101 1111110 001111 11011100 011101 1111111 111101 0111110 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used the same words perhaps, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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