This is an analysis of the poem Quicker Than A Wick that begins with:
Those days that come,
With a visiting from darkness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcDE dXfgfgcbhf aDEced hedfXbbdch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 00100010 10101010 1111 1101001 111011 11100110 11010 001001010 111111111 001010101 1101110100101 1111100100 01010011 1100011 111100100000010 11111100100 1101001 111011 110010 110101 1100100 11111111 11 11011010 011011010111100 111010101101 101011111 00101000010 01111 00100010100 01010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of Quicker Than A Wick;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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