This is an analysis of the poem The Fire that begins with:
The old men of the world have made a fire
To warm their trembling hands....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX cXbDeXcXDabea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111010 0111001 110110 0111110 0110101 01111 11111111101001 11011 101001101 1011110100101 10101111001 11011 101100111010 1111 101001101 011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; men, him, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Fire;
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