This is an analysis of the poem Our Oldest Friend that begins with:
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friend
That, short of eternity, earth can lend,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggff hhii Xddd jjbb aaii ccdd ggiX ffiX ggkk llii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 1100100111 011101111 1101110111 111100101 0010101101 1110100101 01111101 110010101 1111100101 111010111 111111101 010111111 010101101 110101101 1101111001 110100101 101110101 1011111 101111101 1101111010 11100101 10100100101 011111111 110111100 1111111111 1111101111 1110101111 10010101 010010101 1001100010 110110111 11111111 1111100101 11111101101 1110111001 111011111 111101101 1111100101 110101000 11111011 111100001 10010111 01110100 11111111 111100101 110011101 111010111 11010101 011011101 111010100 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, he, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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