This is an analysis of the poem To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire that begins with:

WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccddeebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1100111101 01001110011 1001011100 1101010110 01110011101 1001010100 10001010101 1110111011 11011001001 1001001111 01001010101 1011111011 0111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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