This is an analysis of the poem The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends that begins with:

THOUGH you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 100101 11110011 010111 11011101 110101 11010101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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