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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  • summary of In The Firelight;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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