This is an analysis of the poem Firelight that begins with:
Ten years together without yet a cloud
They seek each other's eyes at intervals ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba abcabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001001101 1111011100 010000100111 1101010001 010010100001 110011101101 1111110011 0100110101 1011010111 0101010101 1011011101 1011101111 0101010111 0111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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