Analysis of Candle'S wax
The wax candle
On my sill it sits…
Within twilight lit
Into the blackest of the night
It spits
A fiery flame
But, the candle wax
It only drips…
When your heart
Apart from me
Is so far away…
Scheme | XAX XAX XX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110 11111 0111 01010101 11 01001 10101 1101 111 0111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 185 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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