Analysis of Brotherhood
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
God, what a world, if men in street and mart,
Felt that same kinship of the human heart,
Which makes them, in the face of fire and flood,
Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110101 111110101 11100111001 110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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