This is an analysis of the poem Friendship’s Black And White that begins with:
Romance is writ for me with many names
Of fair loved faces, each page a design... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabXccdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110101 0111011001 100110000101 1001010101 1011111111 01001101001 0111001101 111100101010 1001011101 1101000111 1101111101 01011101000 0101110111 1011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
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