This is an analysis of the poem My Friends that begins with:
The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief;
And I lay there in the bunk between, ailing beyond belief;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb bbb ccc ddd bbb eee eee ddd ccc fffXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101101000101101 111100101100101 010100111100111 1101101010101111 01011101111100111 01111101011101001 111010010011101101 1011011111110101 11011001011100111 1111101111111101 1010111001111111 10111111011010111 1101001011101101 11010010011101001 110111001011111 1100111011100111 11111001011111001 11101001011101001 11001011100110001 101111110110100101 11111110010111101 1101111011110101 01101011011010101 10111011111101111 101111111001011111 110101111110101 111100101111111 1111101010111101 1111111111111001 111111111101101 110111010111110101 0010111111010101 11100111111101001001 1111101001111101 0100101111100101 1111011011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me, they, crunch, my, would, how, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words i'll, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of My Friends;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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