This is an analysis of the poem God's Candle that begins with:

Dedicated to Mrs. Alice Baldwin, of Burlington, Iowa, the 'Little Girl' of Yore.
'Oh, isn't it pretty?' a little girl cried,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbXX ccddeX bbeeff eebX eebXggcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10000101010010010001101 10001001011 0011100111111 101101111101 11011111101 11011111001 11111111011 11001001011 11011001101 11001101111 111011011001 11111001001 100111010111 11101011001 11001001001 11111001001 111011000111 11011001011 11101101101 1111111111001 11101011101 111011001011 111101001010 11011001111 110111011101 11111101001 11011011111 11001101101 01101001101 01011111001 111110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, she, he, it are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of God's Candle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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