This is an analysis of the poem The Time For Brotherhood that begins with:
When a fellow's feeling blue,
And is troubled, through and through ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddecffegcchg iiXijjbiXahfeebf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010111 00101010 1110101 1011101 1011101 11101011 1001101 1010101 1011101 11101010 10101011 1010101 0001101 10111110 1011111 1111001 1111101 11101110 1011101 1010101 1010001 10101010 1010101 1010110 1111111 10101010 1010100 1010101 1010111 11101010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; time is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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