This is an analysis of the poem In The Firelight that begins with:
Come and sit by my side, my daughter, for memory stirs to-night
(How the wind on the wold is sighing, though our hearth is warm and bright!),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddee ffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111101100101 1011010101110111 1111001000110101 1110111010101011 0010110111111101 1010100111101101 1110011011110011 1001111010101111 11101111001111111 11111101011111101 1011010010101101 1010101011100101 1110110111010111 1101101010100111 1111110101111111 111011111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, your, i, they, you are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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