This is an analysis of the poem The Light Wraps You that begins with:

The light wraps you in its mortal flame.
Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bbXa ccdedc XbeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100101 1101101011 01010100010 101011 1011 01001000010001 11001010 1100101 0101100111110 01101 1100011 10111011101 110111010 11011100 1010011010101 001011011111 111010010 1101101010 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Light Wraps You;
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  • history of its creation;
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