This is an analysis of the poem Comfort that begins with:
DARK head by the fireside brooding,
Where upon your ears ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeXe fgfg Xdbd bhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110 10111 10001010 10111 10100110 10111 10111110 11111 10101110 10101 101001010 11101 10101010 00101 10111010 10001 0010101 11001 1010101 10111 1110111 10101 0010101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Comfort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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