This is an analysis of the poem The Fever that begins with:

The brooms glow in the desolate moors;
on the ochre hills, the heather sings: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaX bXXX bXa Xcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 011001001 101010101 1110111111 010001111 100110010 110101010010 1110100010100 11010011 110101100110 1001011111 1111100011 1110110100101 011100101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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, her are repeated.

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  • summary of The Fever;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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