This is an analysis of the poem My Friends that begins with:
for Doug Lang
They came here first in a car shaped like a heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xabcda XXX ae XfdcXace fbaf XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,3,2,8,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11110011101 111011101010 1010101101 1010010 1110101 00110011 11101101001010 1111010011110 110010 11111011010 1111101110111 1111100111110 1101010101 11101011011001 011101001110 110101001110110 1011101010111 100100101110111 1111011101 11110001110100 01100101111 111111011 10011101 01110010111 0100000000000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; they, i, in are repeated.
The author used the same word they 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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