Analysis of Simile
Charlotte Dacre 1771 (England) – 1841
THE little Moth round candle turning,
Stops not till its wings are burning:
So woman, dazzled by man's wooing,
Rushes to her own undoing.
Scheme | AAAA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
Metre | 010111010 11111110 110101110 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 142 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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