This is an analysis of the poem A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal that begins with:
I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped
With Newport coal, and as the flame grew bright... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa ababcX dadaaa ebXbff ghghbb hehXhh hhhhbb ijijbb acacek ababll dXdXcc blblmm ananbb boboek enXncc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0101110111 0101011111 1101110101 1101010001 1101010001 1111011111 01001010101 1101011101 1111100101 1111110101 0101110100 11010111001 0111110111 1001010110 0111110111 1101010111 1111011101 1011010101 1101010111 11010101010 10110001111 10111000101 1011110001 0101110101 1101010111 1001011101 1101111011 1100010111 01010110101 1111010011 1101010101 0101011101 110011011010 10101110101 1101010101 1001010101 0101001101 1110111101 11110100111 0100010101 0101011101 11011100111 1011011101 1111110101 1101011111 110101001111 11010110011 1101110111 1101111111 0101010101 1101110101 1110110101 111000101010 1011011101 1111110101 1101011111 11000011001 1111001001101 11111001011 1111110101 1101000101 11010101001 1101000111 1111110100 1101011101 1011001110 1011111111 1101011101 1111010111 1101010101 1101011111 1111111111 0101000111 1100111101 1011011001 10110101101 11111011011 1111010101 10110111010 010101110 010101001010 1111010111 10010101010 1101110111 0111011101 10110000101 1101010101 1110011110 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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; and, its, that, thee, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, how are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, him are repeated).
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