This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Flick Those Embers On Me that begins with:
Don't feed me heat from your tempers.
Don't flick those embers on me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABAC DAB DABE ABACE AecXDAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 1111011 11110110 1111110100 11110110 1111011 11110110 1111110100 11010101101 11110110 1111011 11010101101 11110110 1111011 111100010 11110110 1111011 11110110 1111110100 111100010 11110110 01001010 111110100 11010101101 11110110 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; me, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words enemy, venture at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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