This is an analysis of the poem Flame-Heart that begins with:

So much have I forgotten in ten years,
So much in ten brief years! I have forgot...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdXaXeEcdfdfXdXeE XcXXagXgee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010010 1101101101 1101010101 1111010111 11010101010 00100100110 1101011101 110100110010 11010111010 010011101010 1101010101 1101010111 1100100111 0101100101 1101010111 0101010101 0101110001 10010100110 11010111010 010011101010 1111110011 1101011111 11111101001 1001110001 1111110101 1001010111 1100010100 1111000111 10110101010 010100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, what are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word december at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Flame-Heart;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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