This is an analysis of the poem A Saint About To Fall that begins with:
A saint about to fall,
The stained flats of heaven hit and razed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaddcdXacdcad eXedbedfbddedfdef gXgXagbbabbagbagb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,17,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 011010111 00111001 101111 0010111 00101 00101001 010000100111011 0111001101 010101 101101000110100 11100100101 1001001 101111111 11010101 1101010011 01000111001010111 101101 011010100 100101101 001011 011101101 110101 00101011 101001111011011 1101011001 00100101 1000100101000101 0101000101 0101001 011100111 101110101 110011101 0100101001010111 100111 101100010 11101001 101010 101101 111100 101101010 0110111001010101 1101100101 011101010 110010110110010 0111101111 101010110 1111101110 1000111110 1100100111 0100100110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
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