Analysis of Where Art Thou My Brother?



Like a beacon, when "the sea gets rough,"
He guides; like a voice, "in the wilderness,"
He calls; most of all, he is "non-pareil,"
A friend with an outstretched hand--always,
As helping is a matter of faith lived by.
He is my brother, I last saw--
More than a quarter of a century ago,
When the world, for me, was cut in two.
Then one day, in a yacht, he came to live
In the same world--in my "neighborhood."
I said to myself, "it's time, we ended
Living in a separate universe,"
But it wasn't meant to be,
For, though he lives not too far away,
His mansion proved "impregnable a fortress" for me.
Where art thou, my brother?
Are you behind guarded walls and gate,
I have to climb over, just to get to you,
So I can tell you, "How much I missed you
As my brother, in all these many, many years?"


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Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 101010111 1110100100 111111111 01110111 11010101111 11110111 110101010001 101111101 1110011111 00110110 111111110 10001010 1110111 111111101 1101010001011 111110 110110101 11111011111 1111111111 111001110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 776
Words 161
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 584
Words per stanza (avg) 155
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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