This is an analysis of the poem Lines that begins with:

WHEN the lamp is shatter'd,
The light in the dust lies dead; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc XcdcXeXe acaXXfXf ggggdhdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 0100111 101010 0101001 101010 1110101 101110 1101101 110110 01101101 111010 11101001 111110 10110101 101010 1101101 111110 1110111 111010 00110110 111100 0100111 111010 111011111 110011 101101011 110011 10100101 11110010 0111101 1110010 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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  • summary of Lines;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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