This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend that begins with:
Go, then, and join the murmuring city's throng!
Me thou dost leave to solitude and tears; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcXeeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110100101 1111010111 0101001101 11011110101 1011010111 1100100101 01001111101 1101011101 1111010100 01010111011 1101011101 01010110111 1101100101 0011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.
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