This is an analysis of the poem The Brave Men that begins with:
HERE'S to the men who laugh
In the face of grim despair, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdCd cececfCf ghghcici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100111 0010101 11001011 1100101 100101 1101101 1100101 1101101 100111 1111111 1101101 0101101 100111 11000101 1100101 0101111 100111 0100101 1100101 1100111 100101 1111101 0100101 0100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word here's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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