This is an analysis of the poem A Year's Burden -- 1870 that begins with:
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,
Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaB cccb dddb aaab aaaB eeeb cccb fffb cccB bbbX eeeX cccb gggB Xffb hhhb fffb iiiB jjjb fffb gggbXeeeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111011111 10111111011 10110011001 1100110101 1111001101 1101010101 1111010101 11011001001 1101110101 11011001001 1111111011 1001111111 11100101001 1101011101 1101011111 11010011001 1111010011 1111111101 1101001011 1100110101 0111011101 1011011000 0101111111 01010111101 0111010100 0111010101 1101110011 1101110101 1101011111 1101011101 1111011101 1111110101 1011111101 1101110101 0111100101 1100110101 11010110111 1101010111 0101010111 1111111101 1111111111 1110110111 1110111111 101110110110 01010100111 1011111111 1011111111 1111010111 1111110100 11001111101 1101011111 1100110101 01011101100 01110011101 0101010111 00110100101 1111010001 1011010001 0101110111 11011100101 10110010101 1101010001 10110110011 1111110111 111011011101 1101111011 1011111111 1100110101 1101110101 1111010111 11111100111 1100111101 1101010101 0110101111 01001111111 1111010101 1101111101 1011111101 1110111101 1101011111 1110111111 11011011110 1111111111 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, of, across, hope, ye, thy, o, we, with, our, one, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words across, from, though, our, all are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dies connects the lines.
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