This is an analysis of the poem In Front Of A Candle that begins with:
I formed the holder of gold,
as you told me to mother,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdceb fXgfafX age hdicbgX hjkljcdhglhkcidailhlaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,7,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1111010 110111 01010010 010010 1 10110 1001 0110111 01101 1111001 1001001 1101 001001 01110 1 1101 001001 11011001 1010100011010 00100111 11110010 110100100001 11010111101 001001001 11 1111101 1011011 001001011011 00100111 110010 11111 0001110101 00111101 1110101001 1101101 1101 01111010 111111 01101 10010110 1000101 01010111 1101010 11101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, still, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, of, there are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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