This is an analysis of the poem My Brothers that begins with:
While I make rhymes my brother John
Makes shiny shoes which dames try on,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggddhiXbbffhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11011111 11001111 11110100 11010101 111011 11010101 01001101 01010111 11011101 11100101 111011 11011101 11011101 11110101 11110101 11010110 01110100 11011101 11110011 11110101 01110100 01010111 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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