This is an analysis of the poem Burning The Letters that begins with:
I made a fire; being tired
Of the white fists of old...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccXdebafcgX ggXaXhifgjkXfj XbkaiXcfbcXiXi cXXXhifkXkXedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 001101 1011110 1111100110 10111110 1111100 11010110 1101011 11110 11111110 011100100011011 10001 101001010110 101110010 0101111100100 011 11011011 1111111 111 110110010 011111110101 1110000011010 111101110010 11 0111 1011 10110 0101111 1111010101100 111100111001 1101 10110110 1110111100110110 1011100111000 11101 001001 1111011110 1101 01010100101010 0100111 010010 1010110 1111 1010 001011110 111010100 111011100010 11111 0111001001001 011101 1100111111 0111 101010111 1001 10010000101010 1101000100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i, involved are repeated.
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