This is an analysis of the poem Bricks that begins with:
Dear Ned, I now take up my pen to write
you these few lines, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXbdcXc efXghfggig jkffXkbflf agXibggiai faiihagiXi XmbfjmXfif imkkXmfkfXk noXglonghg iiphgiihXX fgXqjgaqiq pXinjkannn iajeiafeee iXklfdXlbl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,11,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 1111 1101111110 0111 110101111 10001 110111010101 01 11010101010 101 0111001010 10111 111101111 10111 01010101110 101 010011011100 11 01011100010 101 110101110 10101 001110111 10100 10010101110 111 1111110111 0101 0100110101 0111 11010111 010111 11010101010 111 1111110110 001 1010001000101 11 011010100010 101 110101011 11101 1111010111 0111 11010110101 11 1111010111 0101 110100011 10101 110101011 11101 1101010111 0101 1111111101000 1 11011101011 101 101010101010 101 110110111 1101 110100010101 01 11010001110 111 111101011 10101 1111111 101110 1 111101011 10101 1101110110 1101 010101100101 01 1101010101 10011 110101010 10101 11110011 10111 11010101110 101 1101011011 0100 110110111 110111 11111101 111101 011111011 100111 11011101010 101 110101010 10111 11011101 010101 11110100010 101 11010100110 111 11110101011 101 111111000 10101 1101010101 1011 110101011 11011 11101110001 0101 010111010 11101 110111011 10111 11011011101 101 011101011 10101 1101011111 1101 010111110 10011 01001111011 101 1101010110 1101 010001010101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 131
- 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; 'n', me are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Bricks;
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- idea of the verse;
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