This is an analysis of the poem The Brewing Of Soma that begins with:
The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke
Up through the green wood curled;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccX eeeee fXffg fhffh ibiib jdjjX keXke eceec alaal eXeec bdbbd bgbbg XmgXm cecce jjjjj nokno
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 110111 11000101 11010101 0011001 11111111 011011 11011111 11001110 100101 11100111 011101 01011101 01110101 010111 11010111 011110 11010101 01010101 010101 11110101 0111001 11001101 10111001 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 01011101 110101 01011001 111101 110100111 01010101 110110 10111101 1101110 11001101 11010111 1111010 11000111 110101 01010101 01010101 011101 01011101 010101 01010101 01010001 010101 11011101 111110 010001111 110100101 010101 11110011 011101 10101101 01011101 0101001 01011111 0101001 01010001 11100101 111101 11011101 110101 11010101 01000100 010011 01110101 111111 01010011 110011101 111101 11110100 111101 10110111 11110101 010011 110101010 110111 11011101 110111110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, thy, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some, and, in, o, as are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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