This is an analysis of the poem By The Fire-Side that begins with:
I.
How well I know what I mean to do... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcb X deded X fgfgX X dhdhd a didid a hhhdh X jejej X dcdcd X bebeb k gigig a djdjd X kikXk X Xbhbh X ehehe X gigig X dldld X khkhk X ididi X bkbkb X mdmdm X Xbmbm X ckXkc X bibIb X ncncn X hhhhh X ididi X dbdbd X jijij X kikik X ljljl X dmdmd X ododo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 111111101 101110101 111101101 0010011101 010101 1 1101101001 10011111001 1010110111 1110111101 111101 1 1011101011 11010101 11110111 010010101 010111 1 110100111 110101101 101111101 0010100111 1111101 1 011111101 100111101 101010101 111010011 111101 1 110010111 10110101 11010111 11011111 101101 1 110101001 11100111 010101111 1000111101 110101 1 0111100101 01111111 0101101101 010101011 10101101 1 101010101 11011101 010100101 11010111 1111001 1 1110100111 1010110110 11011101 011011111 1100101 1 10100101010 11011101 0101111010 1010011110 11001010 1 110010101 101010101 1001110101 11011101010 110101 1 1011101000 110100111 11010101 101110101 010101 1 1101100101 110100101 0010110111 10100100101 110101 1 0101110101 1011101 111100101 110110101 10100101 1 110110111 1010101111 0010101101 10011111 1010111 1 010011101 110011011 1011010101 1010110101 1110111 1 011010101 001010111 110011101 110010101 1110101 1 100100101 101110010 111110101 100101101 1111111 1 11110111 1011110111 01010101 011010111 1100101 1 1011110 11111111 111111101 010111101 011101 1 1010011100 110010111 111101110 111010111 110111 1 01111011 11011111 101101111 101011100 1001111 1 10111101 111010111 11110101 011111001 100111 1 11011011 01100101 011101101 011111101 110101 1 11110010 11110111 11111101 01110111 110101 1 11111101 01111111 111111001 10011111 1011101 1 11111111 11010111 11010101 11111111 110001 1 11110100 11110101 110100101 01011101 0011101 1 110100101 1111101001 111011101 1010000101 1101111 1 101110111 11111011 010011011 10011111 110111 1 111011111 11010101 01011101 01110101 010111 1 10111111 1011101 11110101 1111000101 110001 1 100100111 110110101 11010101 111110101 110101 1 111101010 11010101 100111010 010110101 1011110 1 11110101 101011101 11001101 110111101 1010111 1 11011100 010110111 01010101 111100101 110100 1 111101001 11111111 011110111 011011101 1010111 1 1010111100 1010111101 1011101001 101010111 1100100 1 111011101 111111110 1110100101 110111101 1101110 1 11110100111 100111001 101100101 110011111 1011101 1 101011101 010101101 1001101001 1101110111 1011101 1 1101000111 10110111 11111101 011110101 110001 1 1111111 11111111 101111101 11010111 1010101 1 11111101 110101011 11110111 010110101 111101 1 1111010111 111101101 011110101 11111001001 111011 1 010101101 010010111 11110111001 11110111 0100101 1 010110111 11101001011 1110111110 111111111 10101101 1 101011101 111011100 10110101 101010101 1010101 1 01111111 0100100101 1100101001 01001101001 1100101 1 1111111101 11110101 11111101 110010101 110111 1 10111101011 101111001 101101111 101011100 101111 1 111111101 10101101011 1010111010 110111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 106
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 318
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, its, my, they, let, each, her, one, fruit, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, let, the, that, how are repeated.
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