This is an analysis of the poem O My Friends that begins with:
O my friends,
What can you tell me of Love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcccdXaXedXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111 1111101 11111010 111001111 101111001 101001011101 01001001101100001 01001111010101 00101101111001 001110011001 101111001000110 1011001001 110101001011 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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