This is an analysis of the poem Burnt Out Is Now My Misery that begins with:
Burnt out is now my misery--
love's yearning...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaab Xcddc efbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 110 1110001111 11000111110 11110101110 1001011111 01111101010 110011110111 00110111010 11010001110 1101010101 10110101010 1101111101 10010101010 10011100110 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, in are repeated.
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