This is an analysis of the poem The Brothers that begins with:

Scene-_A lawyer's dreadful den.
Enter stall-fed citizen.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa b bbbccddeeXdaaee eef fb bgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,15,3,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1011100 1010101 1001101 11100011 00111011 1111111 1011101 1011101 1000101 10111101 0110101 1111101 1011001 1010101 0011111 11110111 01010101 1011101 1001101 1111111 1001111 1011111 1010101 10101110 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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  • summary of The Brothers;
  • central theme;
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