This is an analysis of the poem Brother, You’ll Take My Hand that begins with:
NOT to the sober and staid,
Leading a quiet life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcaaaA caeafgfggagA hacaceaedagA XiXijkjkdacaXhfafajhjgagA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 100101 1011111 101111 100101 100101 100100 00111101 000111 100101 1011011 101111 0111111 011111 100111 1011111 100101 00111111 1111001 0111101 101111 0110101 110101 101111 0110111 1111101 11100101 11101101 101111 1001001 10100101 100111 101100 110111 111101 101111 0111111 1110101 11101111 1010101 010101 110101 100111 01101001 101100 1011011 1101111 101101 100111 111111 0101011 1011001 111110 100101 100111 1100101 110111 101101 111101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; that, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, haunted, and are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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