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

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