This is an analysis of the poem Friend Of Mine that begins with:
Friend of mine...
I want you to know, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbabcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11101 101000 110111 10111 11001001 11111 1110110 011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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