This is an analysis of the poem Old Crony that begins with:
I had a friend, a breezy friend
I liked an awful lot;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaa cdcdefef Xcdcgbgb dcdchaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111101 10010011 010011 11010111 110111 11111101 1111 01001111 110111 11011111 110111 11111101 111101 11010101 1111 01111101 111001 01011101 110110 111101010 111101 111101010 1101 11110101 010111 11111101 111101 11010101 111101 11010011 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, and, to, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, and are repeated.
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- summary of Old Crony;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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