This is an analysis of the poem Fire Dreams that begins with:
I REMEMBER here by the fire,
In the flickering reds and saffrons,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbccdX EfXbdXXXafc EffcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 001001110 11001101 10011 100101 10111101 1010101 1011101 11 10101111 11111 111110101 10101101 1111110011101 1010111111 11111001 0101110 01010101 0101010101 11 001001011 101111110100111 1011011011010 1011110011 11111110100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pilgrims, since, november, god are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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