This is an analysis of Upon The Sight Of A Pound Of Candles Falling To The Ground by John Bunyan.
But be the candles down, and scattered too,
Some lying here, some there? What shall we do?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc X ddbXccee
- Stanza lengths: 6,1,8,
- Metre: 1001011101 1101111111 1101011111 0111010101 1111111101 1011110101 0100 0101011100 0101010111 1101000110 0111110100 01011101110 11010101010 01011101110 11011010010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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