This is an analysis of the poem Friends.... Old Friends...... that begins with:
Friends… old friends…
One sees how it ends.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AababaXXccaA AadedeffccaAXAafefeaaccaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11101 0101 1011 10101 10101 10010 11000 0111 11001 1101 01 111 11001 11101 11101 01101 01101 101101 11011 11011 11001 10101 01 111 101101 1101 01111 10101 11011 1111 01001 1101 11101 1001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it are repeated.
The author used the same word friends at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines friends is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word friends at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase friends connects the lines.
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