This is an analysis of The Candle Of The Lord by Ada Cambridge.
“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.”
“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXa XbXb Xaca dede afaf ghgh hbhb acac XgXg icic jbjX
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 010010010001 01001101001101110100 1 1101110111 1101010101 11110100110 111101 1101111100 0101010101 1100010101 001101 1101111001 101011111 1100111101 100101 1001010101 1100010101 0111110001 001100 1101010111 01100011011 1101010111 110111 11011000111 10010010101 01010101110 110101 1101010111 0101010111 1001010111 100101 1111010101 1111111101 0101110101 110111 1100111001001 1101000101 1111110111 010001 1101111111 1100101101 1011000101 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
spirit, our, of, his, and, to, light, for, o
Anaphora
the, only, and
