This is an analysis of the poem But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light that begins with:
The world's light shines, shine as it will,
The world will love its darkness still.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111100 01010101 11110101 0011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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