This is an analysis of the poem I Love To Be Warm By The Red Fireside that begins with:

I LOVE to be warm by the red fireside,
I love to be wet with rain:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101101 1100101 1100101101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, to, be, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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