This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Sight Of A Pound Of Candles Falling To The Ground that begins with:
But be the candles down, and scattered too,
Some lying here, some there? What shall we do?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc X ddbXccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1001011101 1101111111 1101011111 0111010101 1111111101 1011110101 0100 0101011100 0101010111 1101000110 0111110100 01011101110 11010101010 01011101110 11011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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