This is an analysis of the poem My Friends that begins with:
My friends without shields walk on the target
It is late the windows are breaking...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b ccbdeea afghdX XXdbf hii g eXciaed fiaiXX X dXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,7,6,5,3,1,7,6,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010 001010110 110111 111 11010101001 01 110111 101011 11 11011111 1101111 111110 00111011011001 1111101 11111 110111101 10001100 10101101010 11011100110 00101001 1101101101 11000010 1101 0101111 11111010 00101100110 010100 100 1010101001001 1111 1101101 110101001 001 1101111001001 1101111 1101010110001 1111100101101 1101111010 01001111110101 1010001 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, they, their are repeated.
The author used the same word my 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 turn is repeated).
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