This is an analysis of the poem In The Firelight that begins with:

My dear wife sits beside the fire
With folded hands and dreaming eyes, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeed fgfgebbe bhihjiij kbkbhcah lglXbhhb cfcfbmmb cXchkiik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111101010 01011101 10010101 11010100 110101001 01010101 11011001 11010101 01111111 01011111 00010011 11010101 01110111 01010101 11110101 10010101 11011001 010101111 10110101 11111101 11010101 11000101 01110101 01000101 11111111 110010101 110100101 11000101 11101101 11110111 110111010 01111101 1111001001 11011101 01010101 110101100 010101001 10110101 11010101 011100111 01110111 01011101 010011101 11010100 01010111 11100001 10010111 10111101 11110111 00010100 11111101 01110101 11010101 011100101 11110101 01110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, that, a are repeated.

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