This is an analysis of the poem The Brothers that begins with:
Tis midnight, falls the lamp‐light dull and sickly,
On a pale and anxious crowd,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgbgb Xhghifif jgjgdkdk ededgfga XjXjjgjg akakbjbj jfXfXlgl icicXbjbXefefgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110 1011101 101110101010 01110101 1111011100101 1110101 010111010111 010111 11110110110 110101 101011101110 11011101 11110101110 1010111 11101111010 1111101 11110011110 11111 101000101010 010101 11011101010 1010101 111010100010 1010011 010101001010 010101 11001101011 1111111 111001100010 110011 101011101010 101010101 101000111110 101110101 101000111110 100010101 101010101010 1011101 11001110110 101110100 101011101110 0101111101 1011000101011 1101010110 01110101110 11101001111 11011101110 1011111 101011111110 1111010101 111110101110 011111 11011111110 11110111 11010101010 1101010101 01010100010 101000100101 11011101000 101011101 11001101110 101110001 11010101010 11101110111 1101111010 1101101 11110101110 011111 01100101000 0010101 11010101010 0101110101 01111101010 111001 011011101110 1110001 111011111010 1111011011 0111111110 110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words twice, one are repeated.
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- summary of The Brothers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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