This is an analysis of the poem The Lame Brother that begins with:
My parents sleep both in one grave;
My only friend's a brother.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc efgf hiji bfgX ehgh kdjd kheh gegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 1101010 01010101 1101010 01111111 010111 100111111 111101 11111101 111101 11110101 110101 11111101 1100101 11110101 110111 01010100 111111 11011101 101111 11011011 110111 11111100 010001 11110101 110101 10110001 110101 110111110 110101 11010111 110101 11110101 010101 111101001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Lame Brother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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