This is an analysis of the poem Hidden Flame that begins with:
I FEED a flame within, which so torments me
That it both pains my heart, and yet contents me: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddbb aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111111 10111111101 11010111110 11110111010 11111111010 11110111110 10110111010 11110011110 10011101010 111010111010 11110001110 11011111010 10101111011 11011111111 0011011101 11111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, it are repeated).
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