This is an analysis of the poem Light that begins with:
Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac dbbd Xcbc XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 011101001 11000101 010101 0110001 1001011 1001011 10010101 11000110 10010101 1100011 11110101 10010100 0010101 00111001 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Light;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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