This is an analysis of the poem Man, A Torch that begins with:
Blown up with painful care and hard to light,
A glimmering torch blown in a moment out, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXbcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 01001100101 0101011101 1011010101 10011010100 0101000101 0101010101 0100010101 010101010010 01001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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.
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