This is an analysis of the poem The Brother's Reply that begins with:
Sister, fie, for shame, no more,
Give this ignorant babble o'er,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdeecdddffddgghXeeiibbhXggjjcc cceekkbbaabbjjggXXggkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 101001010 1010111 1011101 10101010 01101110 1111111 1010101 10110110 11111010 1110111 1011111 10111010 11101010 1011110 1010101 1111111 0111111 1111101 0010100 1110101 1011111 1110001 1010101 1111101 1010101 11101011 1011010 1010011 10101001 1011101 0110101 101101010 00111110 1111111 1001101 1010001 1111111 1000111 1110101 0111101 1110101 1111101 1010101 0010101 0111101 0111101 1010101 0011101 1010001 1111101 1010011 1000101 1011011 0110001 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 871
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; then is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, all are repeated.
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- summary of The Brother's Reply;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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