This is an analysis of the poem To My Friends that begins with:
Dear friends, and here I say friends
the broad sense of the word:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXXccbbacXXXbdcXXdXeecXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 011001 1100100100 110110 101101 1100111 0101011111010 01101 01011 11110100010 110101000 1111111 110001001 1111111011011011 1110101001 010110 11011101 1011001 00110101 010101 10110 0101010 10111101 110110 101010110 01010101 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 854
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, each, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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