This is an analysis of the poem Footfalls that begins with:
The embers were blinking and clinking away,
The casement half open was thrown;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dbdX bebX dfdf fdfd gege haha ijij ckck iiXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001011001 010011011 111011101001 111101101 11001011111 001001001 111011011011 111001001 11001101001 01101001 111001011001 111001010 11001111001 001011001 111011011011 1111110010 011011001001 11011011 11001111001 01111001 001111101011 11111001 11101101101 11111111 11001101001 11011001 11111111011 101011001 11011011101 011011111 101101011011 111001101 101101011011 111011011 0110111010011 111101001 11011011101 111111111 101011011001 101111011 11011111111 111111111 101001101 101101001001 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, by, though are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Footfalls;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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