This is an analysis of the poem To Call Up The Shades that begins with:
One candle is enough. Its gentle light
will be more suitable, will be more gracious...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010101 00110000110 101010101 1100010101 11111101100 110000100101 00110010110 011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- summary of To Call Up The Shades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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