This is an analysis of the poem The Fury Of Earth that begins with:
The day of fire is coming, the thrush,
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbbXXXXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001001 01011010110 010011010110 110100010010 0100110011 010000101110011 11101101 00100001 0010100 101010101 01111011 101101 00011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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