This is an analysis of the poem The Brothers Stuart that begins with:
In the year 1843 we were, though but a boy, at a fair at
Cawdor Castle. Readers of Shakespeare's Macbeth will...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXXdcXXd cceecXffXXccaa ggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111011011011 101010011010 1101101001010 010010110010011 1010110100110 10001010100010 111010100101 1001010110101 101110101101 00101000101111 0101010101000100 011 11010001 11000101 11010001 110011011 11001101 11010100 11110101 11010101 11000101 11110110 11110010 1010101 11101 11100101 11010011 01010101 11011101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cawdor, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, or are repeated.
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