This is an analysis of the poem Brothers that begins with:

How lovely the elder brother’s
Life all laced in the other’s, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcccddbbbeedXffggaahhXiccjjffXkkeejjiiXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010 1110010 111111 101101 1100101 11111 11111 111111 11000101 111111 1100101 10101 101011 1111111 11001011 1111010 111111 111101 111101 1100101 111111 110111 111011 1110101 1010111 111101 011101 110101 1100101 111111 110101 111111 1111 111011 110001111 011101 111111 110101 11101111 101111 101101 110110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

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  • summary of Brothers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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