This is an analysis of the poem Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand that begins with:
BROTHER of all, with generous hand,
Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc defghi Xjj hkXkbhheXh bah hlhh afXg ka bh bhb bXm hknam XhXcmdiXfaXakk djlh XfhXki Xah hXhnm XjbXkin
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,3,10,3,4,4,2,2,3,3,5,14,4,6,3,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101001 0110011110111111 0101010001 0100111 1111110101 110101111101 01110111 1111100101010 10 11010111110 110010101011 01111111010 0101010 1101010 01010100001 011001011011111 010101001011110 1 01001000101100010 101101000101 0100001010101 0111111101 1000110 1011 010111010 100101010100010 110010010 10010100111100001 10010101001 1000010 010101010100101 1001111011010 101 0101101000101 0101010001 0101010100011 011010101 1101000101 011111110 1010001011111 010111 01011100 110101010101011 10110 0101010101 1101110101011 101 01010100010111 10010 110101001 10110101110 110101100111110 1 10010100101110 1 101101010011110 101 010111110001 01110101010101 100 010101001 001001101 010011010 110101 01111101010 10001011101 11110101110 1111011101 11110100 1111110111 110101001100111100 110110101011101 100111110100 11101100 0100010010001 01010101010 11011101 01010101001111 1100010011 10111111 10010010 1101100100 0101010 0100001000100010 111111101 0101101010100 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, of, thou, nor, and, earth, you, by, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, what, the, by are repeated.
The author used the same words in, lo at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, future are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word heroes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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