This is an analysis of the poem On A Friends Absence that begins with:
Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay
Doubles each houre of the day:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc XdeeXXeX ddffaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1011001 0110101 1111101 0101 1101 0111 1101010101 11010100 11110101 11010101 11110101 0111 1111 1101 1101111101 11110111 01110101 01110101 11110111 1101 1101 0111 0101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, gone, she's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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