This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas To A Friend that begins with:
AH! think no more that Life's delusive joys,
Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aaaX cdcd ecec fdfd eded cfcf agag XcXc hchcXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111001 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 10001110101 0101110101 0110011101 0111010111 0101010101 01010101010 1001011111 11110001110 0111010101 1101010111 1011010111 1101011101 1011010101 101101001010 1011010101 11010101010 11010010101 0101011101 11111101001 1101000001 1111111001 1001010101 1101110101 1101010111 0101011001 0101110101 1011000111 1101000101 11110101010 11010010001 0101010101 1101011001 1111110101 1111000101 11010010111 0011010001 11011111101 1111110101 1111011101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; from, and, my, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
The author used the same words with, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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