This is an analysis of the poem In The Firelight that begins with:
So sad and so lonely, Dear?
What dream by the fire do you dream... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdecde fafadgbdgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111010111 1111111 1111101 0011010011 011110010 11011011 111001111 1111010010 111111 111101 1101111 1011111 1100101 1111110 00101101 1111011 101110110 1101111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, that are repeated.
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