This is an analysis of the poem I Saw My Life As Whitest Flame that begins with:
I saw my life as whitest flame
light-leaping in a crystal sky, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11000101 11010101 10010101 01010101 110010101 11010101 110100101 10110110 01010100 10000101 111000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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