This is an analysis of the poem The Bonfire that begins with:
OH, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As reckless as the best of them to-night, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXdabefbghijXae g gdbbbbbacekbjgelmcjjladjbiXcXbfXdccgjXbakfcbjbhlbdgeehcgccfadcimjkkkbblhalb i cmdg j XbdbmcaajjdXhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,75,1,4,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1101010001 11010010111 0101011111 1111110101 0101110111 1101010101 1111110001 0101110111 0111011001 0101010101 1011011110 1011011111 0101110101 1111011111 11110101010 0101010101 11011110110 11110101010 1101101010 0101010111 11010111010 1001010101 0101011101 01001110111 1101101011 0011111101 1101000101 10111101010 1111111111 11011101110 100100111 01010100110 11000101110 01001101010 1101011100 10011101101 11110100010 1111100010 10110111010 1101110101 1111011101 01111101010 1011110111 01011111001 0101000111 1111110011 0101010100 011111111 11010101011 10110101000 11110011001 1011111101 1110110001 110110101010 1001100101 101100101 11010101110 01011101010 0101011101 1111010101 1011110101 1101110100 0101011111 1111110111 1110111101 110101101110 01001100110 1111111111 1111111010 1111010101 01111101111 01110111111 1100110011 01111111010 1101010101 0101110111 1110110101 1101111001 0111111101 1111111101 01010100101 1111110001 0111010101 1011111111 1111110101 11111101101 10010111110 11011110110 111111111100 1111001111 1111110101 01001100110 1110101001 0011100101 1110110101 1111010011 1111011101 01110111010 1111110011 11110111010 11111111110 11011110111 0101111101 1101011111 11001110101 10101111110 1100011001 1011111101 10111011010 1011011101 1110011111 0110011101 11110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, scare, and, out, i, you, they, had, for, s, t are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all, there, it are repeated).
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