This is an analysis of the poem Dark Friend, What Can I Say? that begins with:
Dark Friend, what can I say?
This love I bring...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXbXXXXXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111111 0111 01011010 11010 10110010 11100 101111010 1011 10111 1010010 101110101001 1010 010111 101011011 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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