This is an analysis of the poem Friends Of Mine, They Are Fine Fellows that begins with:
Friends of mine, they are fine fellows,
Good men who keep their word and promise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cXcc Xdec adbc Xcde eXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 011111110 1111111 110111011 01100101 111110011 11111010 10101010 01011111 111111010 01101100 10110010 11011010 11111110 1101101 111111010 10101010 10111010 10100010 11011110 11011010 11101000 11111011 11100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you, he are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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