This is an analysis of the poem The Temple Of Friendship that begins with:

Sacred to peace, within a wood's recess,
A blest retreat, where courtiers never press,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccaaddeeffffggeehhcXggffggffggggiiccffffddggeeiiffggeeeejjeeXcffdXaaeeeeggiiffaaccffiikkggeellccffcXffccffee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010101 01011100101 0101110101 0101000101 11110010011 1101001101 01001110101 11010101001 0101010111 1101010101 1001110001 1101110101 1001000101 1011011001 1111011101 1111110101 01000010101 11111101010 1100110101 11011010101 1001010101 1001010101 11001000101 1111110101 01111100101 1111110010 0111010001 0100100100101 1001010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101010101 01000010011 0101010001 0101001111 0111111101 1111001101 10010101001 1111010101 1101011011 1111000101 11001000101 0100100101 1111101101 1101010101 1001010001 1101111101 0101011101 1001001001 0111110101 1101011101 0111001101 0101010101 1111010111 11001111101 1011010101 11010011101 1111010011 0111011101 10011010101 1001011101 1101010001 1101110001 1011111101 1100011101 1001011101 01010101100 10101010101 011100101101 1111000111 1010010101 01110101010 1111010001 01010010001 01110110011 0100010111 0101011101 0101010101 11010100101 1101110001 1101011101 1111110101 1111011101 1101110001 11001111101 1001011001 1101110101 1101010101 0110010101 1011010101 1100011101 0100110001 0111010111 1101011101 1011010001 1101000001 1111011111 1101111101 1011010101 1011010101 0101011001 0111011111 1101110001 1111011101 1101010101 1111110110 1001110001 1101010101 1111010101 11010011101 01010111010 11011111010 0101010101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4986
  • Average number of words per stanza: 844
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, her, his, their, they, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines admired is repeated).

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  • summary of The Temple Of Friendship;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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