This is an analysis of the poem A True Friend that begins with:
A true friend,
Needs not to express a depth felt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccbcaX XcdXdccdb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 11001011 11011 1011010 1100110 01100101 11010010 001001011 1100001001100 011001 10010001010 1101000110010 0111110 110011001000010 01110100 01100101010011 0010010100101000010 00111111101 1101011001010 1010100100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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