This is an analysis of the poem On Friendship that begins with:
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XcXcXcc aXXXbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 101111101110110 1101111101 111010110111111 1111011110101111110101 11101011101010001 101101011101011010111101101000 111011111 111111011010001010100010010001 1110110010101000010 11111100100011000111011111000100001 11110111 0111010111110110 110111111101001 111101001 10000111111100 1001001011010110010 100101010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, you, with, all, in, love, of are repeated.
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