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

Yonder, on the mountain summit,
Lies the castle wrapped in night;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba cded bfXf edXd agbg bhXh dfXfXcaba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1010101 00101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 11111010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1011101 11101110 1110101 10101100 1011101 111001010 1011101 101110100 10101111 11111010 1111101 11101010 1010111 1001001010 10011101 10101010 11111001 10101010 1011111 11111010 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, woe, many are repeated.

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

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