This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii. To My Brothers that begins with:

Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals,
And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creep ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcXadcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101110111 11110101101 1100011111 010100100101 1111110101 11111100101 0101110011 11110111100 0011111101 1101010100 1011010101 1101011101 11011111011 0011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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