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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