This is an analysis of the poem The Free that begins with:
THEY bathed in the fire-flooded fountains:
Life girdled them round and about: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fgfgXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101010 11001101 110010010 01101001 111110110 01011111 111010010 11001001 110011010 11011101 110010010 11001001 110111110 11101101 010011010 01001001 010011010 01101001 110110010 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; , in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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