This is an analysis of the poem The Little Brother that begins with:

O brother, brother, come down to the crags by the bay,
Come down to the caves where I play;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaccXaaddaaaeea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011001101 11001111 111110101 011110111 0100101 110101111101 11111101 1010111111 1100111001 11101100 110101100111 101110001 1011110111 1011110101 1110101 110100110100 11111101 111011101 111101111001 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 826
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Little Brother;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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