This is an analysis of the poem The Lamp Of Poor Souls that begins with:
[In many English churches before the Reformation there was kept a little lamp continually burning, called the Lamp of Poor Souls. People were... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbb acac dada baba aXaX dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101001010101110101010001010101110001011011010111100110111110 0111011101 01110010101 1011011111 1011 1101010111 0111010111 1111110001 1111 1101111111 0011111101 0011110101 1011 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101 1001 1101101101 1101111111 1111010101 110101100 1101111111 1101111111 1001111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, shine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words into, shine are repeated.
The author used the same word shine at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Lamp Of Poor Souls;
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