This is an analysis of the poem Branding The Foals that begins with:
WHY do I look for fire to brand these foals?
What do I need, when all within is fire?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111100111 11111101010 11111000101 11011101010 1111110001 0111010101 11111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
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