This is an analysis of the poem Armand Barbes that begins with:

Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire,
That where the roots of life are had its root... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaccdXdd effeeffeXdXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101001000110 1101011101 1101011111 01110100010 1101100010 11110100111 0111011001 110100111110 01110100111 0110001111 01010011101 01001011111 10001011001 1111011011 1101110111 1111010111 0111111111 10110100101 0111000111 1111111111 1101110101 1111111101 101110100111 1101011101 11111111010 11111111110 1101111101 1110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, that, love, and, thy, all, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, all are repeated.

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