This is an analysis of the poem To My Brothers that begins with:
Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals,
And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creep ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcXadcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110111 11110101101 1100011111 010100100101 1111110101 11111100101 0101110011 11110111100 0011111101 1101010100 1011010101 1101011101 11011111011 0011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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