This is an analysis of the poem Fire-Flowers that begins with:
And only where the forest fires have sped,
Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101011 1001000111 0111010101 1111010101 0101011101 1100011101 01000100101 1111010101 1101010001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Fire-Flowers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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