This is an analysis of the poem Hanging Fire that begins with:
I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcXebXDF XebagebXXaDF XcdgbagXXXDF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111011 01110101 1101 010 11111 11110 1011 0110 1100011 0011 1101101 0110110 1101111 0111011010 1011100 1100 101011 10101101 111 11001 1100011 0011 11110101 011100 1110111 1101010 111100 01 1010 111001011 011101 011 1100011 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Hanging Fire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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