This is an analysis of the poem The Brothers that begins with:

'These Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must live
A profitable life: some glance along, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme:
  • Stanza lengths (in strings):
  • Closest metre:
  • Сlosest rhyme:
  • Сlosest stanza type:
  • Guessed form:
  • Metre:
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 19936
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3631
  • Amount of lines: 456
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of, he, that, had, by, his, to, you, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words another, that, and, a, we, of, he, the, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, leonard connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Brothers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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