This is an analysis of the poem The Duty Of A Brother that begins with:
Why on your sister do you look,
Octavius, with an eye of scorn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh eiei jiji kdkd gdgd lglg Xhjhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 010001101 11010111 10111101 11110101 11100111 101101101 00111101 11000111 00110110 01111001 01001101 110111010 10111111 001100010 11010111 1101010001 010101110 11010001 010101010 10110111 01100101 10111001 11111111 01010011 11010111 11010111 11001011 111100010 11110101 001111010 11010101 01010111 101111010 00111111 1001000010 00011101 11010001 01010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; you, their, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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