This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud that begins with:

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant visions, as of old! ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fdfd gaXa fbfb fdfd ahah eieiXfgfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 1010101 10111010 1110101 11101010 1010001 10111010 1010101 10111110 10100101 10101010 10111101 11101010 1011101 11100010 1111101 110001010 1100101 11101010 1011001 10101110 10010001 10111010 1010001 10101010 1010101 100111010 0010101 11111110 100101111 10101100 1000101 11101010 1010111 11111010 0111101 10111010 111110110 11101010 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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 words naught, down are repeated.

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

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