This is an analysis of the poem Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) that begins with:
The ceaseless rain is falling fast,
And yonder gilded vane,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bgbg hbhb gdXd aiai jdjdXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 01010101 110101 01001111 100101 01100111 1001011 01011111 111101 11110111 010101 10111111 110101 01011101 011101 01110101 011101 11010101 100101 110010101 110101 11011111 0101001 110101110 110101 11110111 111101 110000101 101001001 11010111 1111001 11011011 10111 00111101 011101 11110011 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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- summary of Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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