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?"
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNMOPHHQ |
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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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