This is an analysis of the poem Our Firemen that begins with:

Lines delivered at a Firemen's Soiriee [sic] in the days of the hand engines.
Our youth and beauty here arranged,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb Xbcc ddXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101001100100110 11110101 010001001 111001010 001010010 111101010 10101010 00101111 11110101 01011101 01000111 110111010 11011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of Our Firemen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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