This is an analysis of Of The Flie At The Candle by John Bunyan.
hat ails this fly thus desperately to enter
A combat with the candle? Will she venture…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbb g ddffhh
- Stanza lengths: 16,1,6,
- Metre: 110111000010 01000100110 0111011101 1101111111 1101000101 1101011011 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111011001 1101011111 1111011101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1101111101 0100 0100110011 1101001101 0101010001 1111010101 1101010111 1001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
she, and
