This is an analysis of the poem Internal Firesides that begins with:

Bewilderingly, from wildly shaken cloud,
Invisible hands, deft moving everywhere, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdceed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 10000010101 01001110101 11001010101 1101100101 1111010101 11011100101 1101111001001 1100010101 1101010101 0101010100 1111111101 11010101101 1111010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Internal Firesides;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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