Analysis of Friendship
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.
Scheme | ABAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100110 010111 011100010 11011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 135 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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