This is an analysis of Meditations Upon A Candle by John Bunyan.
Man's like a candle in a candlestick,
Made up of tallow and a little wick;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeedceeffgghhcciiiiddiiccgXffddjjggeehhcciikkeehhggeebbiibbib
- Stanza lengths: 66,
- Metre: 1101000101 1101010101 11010100110 10110001010 1101010101 11110101110 10011101111 11011111111 11010111010 1111011001 1101010101 1111010111 0101010101 0110010110 0101011101 1101110111 01101101010 11011101010 1111010101 1101110101 11010101101 1101111101 1111001101 1111110101 01010110010 11011101010 1111010001 1101010101 1100011101 1100010001 0110010100 1011011101 0101010101 1111110001 11000101010 11111101010 0101110001 0100111001 11001001110 11011101010 1111111101 1101010111 0100011101 1111111111 1001001101 1111011101 11011110010 11011101010 1101111101 1101010101 11011101010 11111110110 11011101110 11110111110 0101010111 1101000101 1111010001 1101010101 1111010101 01011111101 1111010101 1101010101 0111110101 01110101101 0101010101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
in, nor, and
Anaphora
sometimes, the
Epiphora
not
