This is an analysis of the poem Reflections From The Flash Of A Meteor that begins with:
So teach me to regard my day,
How small a point my life appears; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bcbc dddd bebe fgfg hdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 11011101 11010101 01010100 11010101 11011111 110011001 11110101 10011111 11111111 10010101 11010111 11011101 11010101 11111101 01010111 11010101 01011101 10011101 11010111 1010101 01100101 11110101 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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