This is an analysis of the poem My Big Brother that begins with:
My big brother will git you fer that,
He'll shine up your eye and he'll step on your hat:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcdaad eeccccXaad aaeeffdbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111 11111111111 11011001011 001011111011 1111111 110111 11101001 1010 11101 111001 1011110111110 111011101 10110111011 111001011101 01011111001 111110 1111111 111110110010 011011 101011 010111111110 111011001111101 101101101001 001101111101 011111001011 111011 111111 0011011110110 111001 1111101 1111010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; me, an', you, big, brother, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word brother at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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