This is an analysis of the poem And What Shall You Say? that begins with:
Brother, come!
And let us go unto our God. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXbXbdbdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11111011 1111011 111 101111 1110 1111 111 11011 111100 11110 1101100 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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