This is an analysis of A Breach Of Friendship by Edgar Albert Guest.
‘TIS friendship's test to guard the name
Of him you love from all attack,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab ccddeeccccaaeeeeXX fXXcgghhffccbbeeXX XXiiddbbddaahhjjhX
- Stanza lengths: 4,18,18,18,
- Metre: 11010101 01110101 11100101 00110101 10110101 01001110 11110011 11110001 11110111 11111001 11101101 01011111 11101111 11010101 11110101 01110101 11010101 01111111 01011101 11110111 111111000 11111111 11101111 11011110 1111011 11011101 11111111 11011101 11011101 11010111 11111101 110110001 11010101 11111001 11110111 01011101 11010111 11011111 11110101 11111111 11101101 111111010 11011101 010100001 11010111 11011101 01111101 11110001 01111101 11110111 11111101 11111101 01111101 11010101 10111111 111101111 11011101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 58
Repeated words/phrases
to, ', you, and, i
Anaphora
and, no, his
Epiphora
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