This is an analysis of the poem Ballad By The Fire that begins with:
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababbc bC abab bcbC XXbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,2,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 01010101 01110101 10010111 11010101 10011001 01010111 11110101 10010101 01111101 11110010 11011101 11110101 01110101 11010111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11011101 010101001 01111001 01111111 11110111 11110101 10 10011101 01110111 11111001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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