This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Failure that begins with:
HERE is my hand to you, brother,
You of the ruck who have failed ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcXcXdbdbefefceXedgdgXh dhibibdjdjcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 1001111 11110010 10110110 10110110 1011111 11110110 1001001 10010010 1101001 10010110 1011101 10010010 1011001 10010110 1001001 11111110 1011111 11111110 1011101 10111010 1001001 10010110 1011001 11110110 1101011 11010010 1101101 11110010 1001001 10010010 1001011 10111110 1011001 01011010 0001001 10011110 1001101 10010110 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, you, to are repeated.
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