This is an analysis of the poem Brave Boys Are They! that begins with:

Heavily falls the rain;
Wild are the breezes tonight;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcd beae XdadfgXg dhXhcada Xdadefhf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 1101001 1101010111 1101111 10011101 100101 111101001 0100111 1111 111101 111111001 1101111 100111 1011011 110101011 0100001 1011010 1001101 010111011 1101001 101100 1011001 110101101 1100101 1011110 011101 111111011 1101001 101101 1001011 011111011 1101111 1011010 100101 010111001 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; them is repeated.

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