This is an analysis of the poem I Would I Were The Glow-Worm that begins with:

I would I were the glow-worm, thou the flower,
That I might fill thy cup with glimmering light; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fcfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111010 11111101001 11100111010 0111010101 11100111010 1101010101 110101001110 01011101001 11100111010 1111001111 01110101110 010100010001 11111111010 1111111101 10010111010 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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