This is an analysis of the poem My Friend Has Fled that begins with:

My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled,
And left me nought but tears and pain behind!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabba cddceec daaXeeXXadda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111011111 1111111101 1101011101 1110111111 10010111101 1111010101 0101000011 0101110101 1011110111 1100010101 1101011101 1111111101 1111010101 0101011111 1111110111 1101110111 0101010101 1001111101 1111110111 11010111011 1011111111 0011010111 0101110101 0100110101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, her are repeated.

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