This is an analysis of the poem Thinking Of My Brothers On A Moonlit Night that begins with:
Drums on the watch-tower have emptied the roads -
At the frontier it's autumn; a wild-goose cries....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011011001 10010100111 0001011011 01011010011 11101110 11101111101 0101111001 01110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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