This is an analysis of the poem They Are So Glad Of A Young Companion, that begins with:
They are so glad of a young companion,
They hail and bless me, these boys of mine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001010 111111101 1111111110 111100101 110100101 111101101 1111011010 110101101 0111001110 011111011 0110111010 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, we'll, of are repeated.
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