This is an analysis of the poem A Rhyme Of Friends that begins with:
Listen now this time
Shortly to my rhyme...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcddXbbXXeeXddXXfXcggbbffXc dXhhXhhiidd eXdjjjiiXabbggkkllll XcXdeedXdillddjjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,11,20,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10011 1111 011011 01101 110101 110111 1110 010100 111101 10101 0101 111100 0111 11111 101001 001001 010011 01110 110101 110101 11010 10011 01111 1101 010111 11111 01001 01101 11110 110101 111101 0010100 1111 10111 10111 1111 001011 111110 111010 10101 1111 1111 11100 1011 11011 111101 111101 1100010 1101010 100100 110101 110101 1101 10111 110111 111111 110101 11101 100101 111101 100111 111010 01111 111110 010111 010011 1101 010101 010110 110101 111110 11011 111101 1111011 111101 1101110 101110 1111010 111111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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