This is an analysis of the poem Dregs that begins with:
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof,
(This is the end of every song man sings!)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabddeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001110111 00010100111 0101010101 1011111111 1111110101 00010100011 1101010101 0101000101 01010011111 1011010101 0001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; as is repeated.
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