This is an analysis of the poem Wait Until The Flame Flickers that begins with:
When the trouble you start goes on...
You're the one who tries to leave it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDA bbXeXfc X bbagX ABCDA GE GB GH GE GB gHhXffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,1,5,5,2,2,2,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 10111010 10111 010011010 110101 111110101 010101100 10110 01000101 10100 110011 111 1111 11110 111101110 11010 1111110 11111111 10101111 10111010 10111 010011010 110101 11010110 1010001 11010110 0010101 11010110 1110100 11010110 1010001 11010110 0010101 110010110 1110100 1101 1100101 1 1 101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, it, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, now are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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- summary of Wait Until The Flame Flickers;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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