This is an analysis of the poem A Retir'D Friendship that begins with:

Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre,
Where kindly mingling Souls a while,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc XdXd XeXe XfXf XXXg bcbc gfXfXfdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100001 110100101 11000111 111100101 10110011 11010011 110010111 11010001 11011100 11010101 01110101 11111101 111111110 10110101 110101010 01010111 11110101 11110101 01010110 11010101 11011101 11010110 11011111 01010100 11110101 01010111 11100101 01111111 01010110 01011101 01110001 11011101 11010101 01010101 01011101 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; their is repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Retir'D Friendship;
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  • history of its creation;
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