This is an analysis of the poem The Bond Of Brotherhood that begins with:
Not for their grandsires' homes they fell, -
For names passed down from sire to son;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcdbb aeaeff ghghbb gfgffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111100111 111101001 11011011 01110111 110011101 11110111 11111111 01110101 11011101 11011101 11011101 110011111 01111101 11111101 110011101 11010101 110011111 11001101 11000111 11000111 11111111 11010101 01010111 11110101 10011111 10010001 011111001 01110101 11111101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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