This is an analysis of the poem The Grate Fire that begins with:

I'm sorry for a fellow if he cannot look and see
In a grate fire's friendly flaming all the joys which used to be....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeffddggeebbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01010100110111 0011010101011100 001010100010101 111010101010101 101010101010111 111010111111101 101111101110001 101110101010111 001110101110101 11010101011101 111001101110101 11110100011101 111101000110101 11011101111101 101101101011101 111010110011101 101010101011101 111111101111111 110011111110101 111110100011111 111011101010101 001111101010101 1010111000110101 101010101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1484
  • Average number of words per stanza: 288
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, no, i, can are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of The Grate Fire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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