This is an analysis of the poem The Flower Of Flame that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbba cdccccd efegegf ghggggXg Xecec ijjj jddd Xkjkj lili jbXb Xmgmg cncn ococ aaoaoo dbdbb cXcdd lplphX adjXj djdj cjcj idid XXdj Xbcbcbc iaiaia XabXb nana Xfaf baba jaja Xenen kmkm ecec qeqe ckck ndnX emem djcjcFddddF bcbcFknknFXfcfcficiicf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,8,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,6,5,5,6,5,4,4,4,4,7,6,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 11011101 01110101 11010111 010111001 110111101 10010111 10111111 101010101 100001001 110011101 110010111 11111111 10010111 01011100 110111010 01010111 011001010 11011101 010101010 01010101 11010111 10110101 111010111 11111111 01011111 11111111 010101001 010010101 10111101 1 011100010 101100101 01010010 1100001 1111110 01101111 11111110 1111101 1011011010 01111001 110110111 11111001 1 100100101 00111101 10010111 00110001 11010111 00110101 11110011 10011101 110101110 11111001 110101010 01110001 1 110101001 11010101 11010111 01111111 11111111 11111111 11011101 11110101 100010111 11001111 11110101 01010001 1 100101 1011 1111011 011011 0110101011001 0111101 101001 110101011 10111 11100101101 0110001 1011100 101101001 10111 01101101101 101001 1111 1011001 111001 01101111011 10 1 01011101 11011100 11000101 11010101 11010111 01110111 11010111 11010101 01100111 10010111 11110101 11000101 11110101 01110101 01011101 10010111 10111101 110111001 11010111 11101101 1 01111101 110111 11010101 111111 10111111 110101 11010111 111101 01010101 100011 11010001 111101 1 11110101 11001101 10111100 01011111 111110101 110110011 100100101 00111101 01011000 010111001 11011011 011101001 111100101 10011111 100101001 01011101 11110101 11010011 11010101 11111111 1 1101011110 010110001 1010101110 0100010101 110111010 110111001 010011110 01010111 0100111010 11001011 110100110 11010101 110101010 110101010 101111010 101111110 0101011110 10010101 11010010010 101010101 101101010 10100111 111100010 101101101 011101110 010010001 110101110 11110111 1 01011101 1011 010101011 00111 11111110 010010101 1011 10110101 01111 11111110 101010010 1101 10101101110 11001 01111110 011100111 0101 11111101 01011 01111110 11110101 1101 01001100101 10101 01111110 01101001 0101 11101101 11111111 11001 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, which, our, to, more, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our, all, no, more, its, whose are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word sleeping at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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