This is an analysis of the poem On The Five Senses that begins with:

All of us in one you'll find, Brethren of a wondrous kind;
Yet among us all no brother... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddeeffffggfXXXeeccaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111000101 10111110 11100010 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110001 1010001 0111111 1110111 1110101 1110101 1111111 1010111 1110101 10101110 100101100 0111101 1010101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1001101 1110101 1010101 1101101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 865
  • Average number of words per stanza: 171
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; of is repeated.

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