This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: The Wind Over The Chimney that begins with:
See, the fire is sinking low,
Dusky red the embers glow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdbbX eeabXa ffXXXX gghggh ffgggg XXihhi hhXjjX ccXbXX ddckkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 1010101 10101110 10101110 10101010 10101110 1010101 1010101 0011101 11101010 10111010 1011101 1011101 1011001 0011101 10101010 10100100 1010101 100100101 1010111 10101100 10111010 10101110 00101110 1010001 1110011 10110001 11101010 10100010 1011001 1010101 1010101 1110111 00101010 10101010 1010101 1011110 1110101 1110101 11101010 10101010 1110101 1110111 1110001 0110001 10101010 10101010 1011101 1000111 1010001 1010111 10101010 1010100 10101110 1110100 1110101 1010001 00100010 10100010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words while, seems are repeated.
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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