This is an analysis of the poem A Burning-glasse that begins with:

Strange Chimistry! can dust and sand produce
So pure a body and Diaphanous;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaXbbccddeaffXcXd aebbXXggeebbgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100111101 1101010100 11011101001 110010101001 1001110101 01011100101 1101110001 100110101 1011100101 10111000101 01011001101 11110011011 11010010111 1101010101 1110010111 0101001101 110110111 01110011101 11100111111 11001011101 1101011101 11101001101 1101010011 11010111000 1101110110 0101110100 11110010101 1111010111 1111010001 1011001101 1101011110 0110010101 11101101111 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 738
  • Average number of words per stanza: 136
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, had are repeated.

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  • summary of A Burning-glasse;
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