This is an analysis of the poem To My Small Hearth His Fire Came that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0111010100 111101 011101010 110000010 1000011010 0100100 1100001010 1100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'twas is repeated.

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