This is an analysis of the poem Now, My Co-Mates And Brothers In Exile that begins with:

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old customs make this life more sweet ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdefXbcfgeagda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110011 1111010111 1101011111 11010101001 11110100010 01010010101 1101000101 11011101110 10111011111 00110011100 1100011111 1101000100 1101101100 1101010001 1011010101 1101100101 1001100101 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 764
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; i, in are repeated.

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