This is an analysis of the poem Friends that begins with:
NOW must I these three praise --
Three women that have wrought... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacddXdeXeXfcfcfdfdabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 110111 110011 10111 111001 110101 101100 110101 110101 110101 111110 111101 111111 110111 111111 1000100 110011 111111 0101001 111111 110101 111011 10100101 0100111 110111 110111 110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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- summary of Friends;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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