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

MAKE war songs out of these;
Make chants that repeat and weave....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaaBBcd eeXXf XXaaXgfX hicd jki glaffajjjjgcX dcacgacaadc idkkd bmlcana aiao ooXbX GaaX XdXXXg aaddkG eedXamf XnnnGncebb d jnecaaacda lfjcnaXakk nnagjo Xan hnaoXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,8,4,3,13,11,5,7,4,5,4,6,6,7,10,1,10,10,6,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1110111 110100111000011 1110110010011 1010101011101 1001 1001 1010101000100010010 011101010100100101011 1001001010010 010100100010010 010110101110 0011101110 0010100010111 111111100010 11010111100010 111111 1111111110111110 1101 1111001010111 1111 110101111101011100010 11101 110111010 1110010001 101110101010 011101101 110100100 01010111001010 1000111 101110111 10101110110 00100101 00100101 0010101 1001 1001 1111001 111100101 010101 010101 0101010101010 10010110 1111011001 001111100101 1111011001 001100111 010101001 000111 11100110 111011 100101 111010101 100110011010 0100101 01001010 01001001000100 1101101101010 1111001011110010101010000101110 111010111110101100111010101010001 11111101001010110110010101011111010111010101 101010010010001011010110001001011011010011101111010001 1010101010101010110101101101010010101010110101011101010 1110101100101111101010100100010101000101010010010010 1010100110101011111010010111011010101011101110 0100101001001 010010 0111010101 0110011100110101 110011101 0111011111 01100111110 0101010 0100100100 1101 010010100 1010010100 1110100101010 0101001 1010011100101010101 01001101110 01001001000 111001110011010 11010011101 0010001 0010101 0100101100001010 01000100101100 01001010111010100100100 1101 0101010 010101000111110 01001001001110010001100011 010100010101000 01010110111111 10010010101 01011101 1111101 11101010 11101010 110100110110 1101 01101 101101 10110 10110 101010 1010111100100111011 1 10010100111001 1010101001110 10010001 1011101101 1001011110 10100100101 100101 11110 1110110111 11110111 1111011 10010010 1011101 110101 110101 11010101 000100110 0001010111010 0001001001010100 0100101001001111010 01110111010001001011010 010110001000101100010101 111011110101011110011111 01100101101010101100111010101101111110101111010001 111010101011 101101 111110 1101101 1001101011111110011110101 100101110101 10010111110101011011110001010101100 011010111 10010001010100011111 0101010100100011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 143
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; make, of, ready, in, khaki, and, you, to, kill, one, it, by, god, good, night, millions, this, million, out are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words make, going, i, in, to, the, good, it, god, and, three, this, out are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines guns, along, khaki, ', kill, palaces, wishing, million, songs are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase death connects the lines.

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