This is an analysis of the poem Friendship Broken that begins with:

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We chose the faint chill morning, friend and friend, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbacdecde X faa ffaafgfcgfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,3,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101110111 1001110111 1101010111 1111110101 1111010111 1101111101 0111011111 0101010101 1101100101 1101010100 1011000101 1001111101 0111111101 1101100101 1 1101110101 1011011101 1011010011 1100010101 1101010011 0011010101 1101010111 1111011101 0110110011 0111000111 0101010001 01011110011 1101000100 0101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; and is repeated.

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