This is an analysis of the poem Looking In The Fire that begins with:
The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough
Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd XedXe dafbg XXXeb Xfcdf cbbbd Xhhgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111101 1111110101 0110010111 01111101010 1001010101 1011000111 1101111101 01010111110 1111111101 1111111101 1101011101 1111111101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 11110101101 0101110101 1111110101 1011011101 1111111111 0101011101 1110010101 01011101010 0111110101 0011101101 01010111010 01110110001 10001110101 0101011111 1111011111 1101010101 0101111111 0101010101 11110101110 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, they, you, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, to are repeated.
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- summary of Looking In The Fire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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