This is an analysis of the poem Before The Casting Of My Shadow Stops that begins with:
Sitting as a wick lit drips wax,
To watch a flame from a candle burn......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 010100101 0010100100001 10111110 011001 1010101010 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
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