This is an analysis of the poem A Friend's Illness that begins with:

SICKNESS brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 101100 111001 111101 110001 111101 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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