This is an analysis of the poem By The Fireside : The Singers that begins with:

God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddee ffee ggff gghh fXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011 01010101 11110101 110101001 010101010 10010101 11110111 10010011 01000101 11000101 11010111 010101001 01110111 10010111 10010101 01000101 11110101 01010110 11110101 01010011 10110111 11011001 110100101 01010101 11011101 11110110 01110001 10101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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