This is an analysis of The Candle Indoors by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
I muse at how its being puts blissful back…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101111111 11110101101 01001011111 10110101101 1110111101 11100010111 01001000101011 1101010101 11111111010 11110100111 11110111010 11011111001 001011011110 1111011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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