This is an analysis of the poem Song For The Students' Glee Club that begins with:

Now, brothers, sing out our song,
Whose train of light shall follow long!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddee Xcffaacc XXffaagg hhhhddii c haaf X eejjcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,8,1,4,1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 11011101 01101010 11001010 11010101 00011101 1111111 11011101 01101111 01011011 01111101 11011101 1 1 10101 111101001 11001110 110011010 010011001 11110111 0 100 1101 111100101 01101110 11011010 11011101 01010111 1100 10 1 01010101 01011011 1111011 11110011 01110101 10010101 01110101 11001010 010001110 11010110 01010100 0101101 11010011 11111110 11001110 101110101 11010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; in, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, our are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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