This is an analysis of the poem Brother And Sister that begins with:

The shorn moon trembling indistinct on her path,
Frail as a scar upon the pale blue sky, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbc dcdece fXfgXg hdhdii jfjfee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011100001101 1101010111 10101011101 10100111101 01011101101 1101010111 1111111101 0111010111 11001011110 110010010101 111111011101 1101101011101 11001011111001 11111111010 101010101001 1101010110010 0111011001110 0101001110 11101011001011 10101101011101 1001010111101 0010011111111 010111001001 110010110111 111100100111 11110111001 11110111101 01110111001 001001011101 111110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words since, we are repeated.

    The author used the same word since at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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