This is an analysis of the poem Draw Up To The Fire that begins with:
Draw up to the fire, stranger ;
You can't go out on a day like this, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb A cdddA ccccX A ceee XA Xeee X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,5,5,1,4,2,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 111110110 1011110101 110000111 10110010 10101001001 1111011001001 011001001001 110101001 10110010 1110101101 11001011111 11001111111 1011101001 1010 10110010 111101110 1100110111 0101000111 1001100101101 1010 10110010 11111011110 111111101 11111110101 010010111 1110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; 'n, up, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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