This is an analysis of the poem A Broken Friendship that begins with:
Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbccXcdcdeedcdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110011101 110010101 110101101 10010111 11110001 110101101 0101110 1110101 101001110 11010101 110101010 010101010 110101010 111101010 01011101 110111110 11010111 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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