This is an analysis of the poem Burning Drift-Wood that begins with:
Before my drift-wood fire I sit,
And see, with every waif I burn, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac abab dede bbbb ffff caca bcbc aaaa fgfg hihi jcjc kfkf afak lhlh imim acac hfXf cccc ilil bhbhXbkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011111011 110100111 111101000 11010101 11011111 001011111 11110101 010101111 01110001 011111001 11111001 010011111 01010101 100101101 10110101 01100101 11110101 010010101 01110101 01010101 011101010 11010101 011101110 11010101 01010111 111000101 100111101 01010010 10110101 11110101 10000111 11110100 110010101 0101001001 11010111 10110101 10111101 01110101 11011101 11010101 11010011 11111111 110101001 11010101 010101010 01011101 110111110 11011111 11010011 11010101 01010111 11011111 11111101 11000101 11111101 10110101 11111101 10011111 110101101 01110101 110010101 010111001 01000111 01010001 11110111 10010101 111010111 01010000 11010110 11110101 01111100 111101101 100111011 11111100 11011111 110100001 11111101 111111001 11111101 110011101 11010101 01010101 11010111 110000101 111100111 11111101 11011101 00110101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, from, that, my, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that are repeated.
The author used the same words did, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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