This is an analysis of the poem By The Fireside : Sand Of The Desert In An Hour-Glass that begins with:
A handful of red sand, from the hot clime
Of Arab deserts brought,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb XXac cdcd efef ghgh aaaa aiai djdj adad bbbbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110110011 010101 0101010101 010001 11010100100 011101 1101010011 1101001 0101000100 1011010 10010001011 0100111 0101010111 100111 1101010001 100111 1100010100 110001 1100011111 1000100 11000011001 100111 11011101001 0101001 1101101001 010101 1101010001 110101 1111001111 1001010 01011100111 0101010 1111110101 011101 1001000101 010101 1101100101 010101 10000010111 010111 1101010101 010101 0101010111 110101 0101001101 110101 1101010101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, how, many, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, shut are repeated.
The author used the same words perhaps, or, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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