This is an analysis of the poem On A Candle that begins with:
Of all inhabitants on earth,
To man alone I owe my birth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbgghhiijXkkllhhllddmmggjjffiiffiikkmmffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 01011111 11010101 11110111 1010111 1010111 11111010 10111010 11010101 110011101 10010111 1010101 1000111 10111001 0111101 1000101 1011001 1100101 1000111 11100001 1010111 1010101 1000101 1010101 1010001 1010001 10001111 1111111 11110101 11010101 10111110 10111110 1101010010 1101000010 1110011 1001111 1001111 1101101 1001101 1010111 1010111 1011011 1111101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110011 1010101 1110111 1111101 1100011 11011111 10010001 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1667
- Average number of words per stanza: 320
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, die are repeated.
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- summary of On A Candle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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