This is an analysis of the poem The Brethren that begins with:
The world is needing you and me,
In places where we ought to be; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa aaccdd eeffbb gghhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01011100 11010101 01111101 11011101 01011111 01110101 01010101 11010111 01001101 11010111 11011101 01111011 11010101 11110101 01010101 01110111 11010111 01110101 11010111 11010111 1111101 11111101 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, men, who, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words men, not are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Brethren;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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