This is an analysis of the poem Embers that begins with:
I said, "My youth is gone
Like a fire beaten out by the rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXXX abbb Xcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1010101101 1010111 11001100 111001110 1101101 1101010 1010000 111111 1101 101101001 0111 110101 11001 101101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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