This is an analysis of the poem The First Fire that begins with:
OCTOBER 1st, 1815.
Ha, old acquaintance! many a month has past... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abacdeedfcghcfaheeijeklfagdjgeXldildblfedbXlkdm fllneaenig abllXdleXddaldebfadmdabdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,47,10,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011 111010100111 1111110111 1111111101 1101010101 1101111101 0101010101 1111010101 11110101101 1110010101 1101101101 01010000110 1101111111 0111010101 01010101000 11010100001 1011000101 0111010111 1100111111 1011110001 1100110111 1101010101 11001111101 0111010101 110010000101 01010111001 1100010100 1001000101 01010100100 01010111010 1101010101 010100010011 1101111001 01110010101 1011110101 1101011101 0100110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1101011101 1101010101 1111011111 01010111010 1101010101 0100010101 0101010111 1001000101 110101101 1101111101 1101010111 0101110101 110011110101 1101101101 11011001010 1101010101 11011100101 0011010111 1111011111 1001010100 1111111100 1001010101 1101110101 1101011101 01011001111 11100011101 11010100111 1101100101 11001010101 0011111101 1101111111 0100011100 1001110101 0101111001 0111110111 010111101 1101010111 1111010101 110101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 713
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The First Fire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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