This is an analysis of the poem Friendship that begins with:
Grey, drooping-shouldered bushes scrape the edges
Of bending swirls of yellow-white flowers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab cXaa caXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010 0101010110 1111101101001 01101010 0100101101000 1010111 1111101 1111100110 101101101 1111101 100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Friendship;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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