This is an analysis of the poem My Brother Tom that begins with:
The old man was reading by the chimney place ;
My eldest sister Jane was getting tea ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc bc de X f ge gf dd X f cf ca hf X i f if j X k X l mi ml hj X c ek eh nc n i Xk Xi ej e ej kX ibXlb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111010101 1101011101 01001101111 0100010101 11101100011 11111101001 101101011101 1001111010 10110101011 1101010111 11110101110 1111011001 11101010100 0111010111 10111111010 110111111011 011100101010 01101110101 11110111010 11010010111 0101011000101 0111011101 11011001010 11011101111 11110111110 0111110111 01111101010 01111111001 11011111010 1111110111 101011111110 100111111 1111011010010 0101010011 111111110010 1111111101 11010010110 1101010100 01010101110 111111111111 11110111010 1101010101 01110111010 11001010101 110111101010 11011111001 11010101110 1101100101 1011111101010 11101011110 1011111101110 111010101011 111010101010 1101000101 11111111010 1111011101 01111001010 1111010101 11010111110 111011101011 11011101010 0101010111 11010101110 1100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, his, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, ' are repeated.
The author used the same words when, the, ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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