This is an analysis of the poem Finding that begins with:
From the candles and dumb shadows,
And the house where love had died,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbccbcadXdecfc gegeegegebbXbXcfcfXcXcbdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101111 1011111 1100111 10100111 11111010 110011 11011110 000101 11100010 1100111 0101010 110101 11111001 1110101 1101110 010011 10101010 11101101 10110010 110101 101111101 10111110 1111101 1100010 11101011 111101 1010110 110 100011 111111 110 1100 11111100 10100 11101010 1110111 10111110 1100101 1111110 110111 10110011 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Finding;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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