This is an analysis of the poem By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame that begins with:
BY the bivouac's fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;--but first... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXXcbacXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010101 00101001110111111 11 010010100111111 01011101010010 1010111101001010 0111111111100100 101 11001011101101 011101101111011 1101 010110101111101 10101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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