This is an analysis of the poem By The Fireside : Gaspar Becerra that begins with:
By his evening fire the artist
Pondered o'er his secret shame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deee cafa Xgdg fhXh XcXcXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010 10100101 10101010 1111101 111100010 1110111 1010101 1010111 00101010 1010101 11101010 1011001 10101100 1110111 10101010 1010001 10111110 0010101 10111011 1010101 11001010 11100101 110011110 1111010 11101010 1010011 1011110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase woke connects the lines.
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