This is an analysis of the poem Not Heat Flames Up And Consumes that begins with:

NOT heat flames up and consumes,
Not sea-waves hurry in and out,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXXXbXXaccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111101 11110011 1010101101001101 100111101001 101010001111 111101110101010 10101111 11111100011 10110101011011110 1 111110110110101 1110101 1011110110101 100101011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 738
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; not, of, and, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines air is repeated).

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