This is an analysis of the poem Late Summer Fires that begins with:
The paddocks shave black
with a foam of smoke that stays,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bXX abX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 0010111 1010111 001001 0100101 11111010 010101111 100111 100111010 11010011 11010 00101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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