This is an analysis of the poem The Hearth-Stone that begins with:
The leaves are sick and jaundiced, they
Drift down the air;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXb cacaca dadada eaeaea fgfgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 1101 01010101 1001 01010110 0101 11010001 1111 01011101 0101 01110101 1101 01010001 1101 11011001 1001 01110101 0111 01110101 0101 11011001 1000 01010101 1101 11010111 0101 010010101 1111 11011111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Hearth-Stone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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