This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend that begins with:
Have you ne'er seen, my gentle Squire!
The humours of your kitchen fire?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeXfghXiijjkkllaahhXeeebbXeggeebbiiffeejjggddcXddmmmeffXdeeaaggjjjii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010011010 11011101 11110101 11010111 11010101 11111001 11111101 1001100110 111101110 110111010 011101011 11111101 111100101 10111101 11010111 1100111110 111001010 01010111 11110101 11111101 11010101 110101010 111101010 110101010 11011101 10110101 11010101 111101010 100101010 110001010 01011010 11011101 01011101 101101110 110111110 101101110 111101000 11111101 11110101 111101110 001100110 11011101 11111111 11110111 11011101 01001101 11000101 11110111 11011001 111111110 110101110 11010101 110111001 11110101 11011101 11110001 11111101 11110101 11011101 11010111 10010101 010110001 01101101 10011111 11011111 11110011 11110101 11111101 11010111 11011111 11110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2671
- Average number of words per stanza: 511
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, which are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, her are repeated).
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- summary of To A Friend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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