This is an analysis of the poem Angelo that begins with:

Seven moons, new moons, had eastward set their horns
Averted from the sun; seven moons, old moons,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcadaefcdgXbfhdiajfXbb bekjbbfXlXfXfemnj agodeamffpcpcjXl qcadqnqpdjbfpmdXrbdfj XckkmeXbemfpfsdkeefafd bcXfffqdXbqqiabrXpkofa fojadqnffbXiofrd efeaeapgpdnpqoffefaamf aemXeftbdXeabfqlXbdfaXihpqXdpgedsdcmouaX ttedbnqkjgcaoe fbafkofjfcdbfXXfcbmmXnqpkdXflpb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,17,16,21,22,22,16,22,40,14,38,8,42,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111110111 01000110111 1011010111 1101110111 1001000101 11011100111 1001111111 1101011111 1011110101 11110101111 1011110101 10010111001 110111011000 11001110101 01111111001 1111011111 0101110111 1001010101 0101110101 10010101011 1111010101 1001110100 1111010100 100111011 01001010101 0111010101 111000110000 1111011111 1001011111 0111000101 0111011101 11001101000 110101111001 1101101000 1001000111 1111110100 1100100101 1101011001 1011010110 1101011111 11010101001 11101111111 010101011001 1010010101 101110111 10111000111 11000101011 01011110111 1101010101 01001110101 1111010101 1001011101 1111111101 1111010101 1111110101 1111011110 1101011001 1101001101 0111000101 1101010101 111101101000 0101010111 10111101101 0111010101 0111001101 1101011111 1101110111 10010001011 0111100101 1010111011 1111110111 1101110101 11110101101 11110001101 1101110111 1001000101 1111010101 01110010101 11110010111 1001010111 1011010100 01001010100 0101110100 0010011010 0110110101 10001010011 1011111111 0100110000 1111100101 00111111001 0111010100 1001010101 1101010111 1101011000 1111011101 0101100101 0111100101 1101000101 1011110011 0101111111 1001110111 1101110101 0100010100 1111010011 0111010111 1111011101 1100101101 1111011111 0111111011 1111010111 1011010101 1111111111 1110111101 1101011101 11110010101 0101001101 1001010000 1011010101 1101011110 0001110101 1011110101 0111010101 11000010101 1011000101 0101011101 01010010111 0111110111 1111100111 0101010111 1101010101 0101110001 1101010101 10110111000 1101111111 1011010101 1100110101 1101000101 11111111001 1011010111 0111000101 01001110111 1101110101 0001010101 1001010101 0101010111 1101110101 1111011111 11110101011 11110100111 0110010111 1101010100 1111010101 1001010101 0100011111 0101110101 10010100111 10101011111 0101110101 10111101001 11010001001 100010110101 1101010001 1111010011 10010101010 0111110101 11110110101 010010100100 1111110101 0101010010 0111111100 1101110101 1111010111 1111010101 1001011101 1001010111 1101110101 01010010101 1111010111 11000010101 011100001101 0101011111 1101111111 1111010101 0001010111 00 0 1010100 1001000101 1101001111 0111010101 10111101110 1001110100 1111101101 0101011111 1110011101 1011010100 1101011101 1001010101 0111111100 11000101110 1101100100 1101100100 1111011101 1001110111 11001000100 1001011101 0101000111 1101110100 1101010001 1101010101 11010101001 0101010111 1110011101 1101110111 1111010101 0110101101 1010011111 0111011101 110 1 1 1 1101 1111011101 11110111001 11001000111 1111100101 11010101110 11110111100 1111010101 0101011101 110110101 1000010100 0101010010 1111111110 1011111101 1100010101 0111011101 11110101000 1101010101 10010010110 1101011101 11010011111 0101010111 1111010101 01001010001 1001000111 1111110001 0100101101 10111001111 1101000101 11010001001 11100010111 0101010101 1101100111 0111011101 0101111111 0101011111 1011000101 1101011101 11000110101 0100110001 0100011000 11110010111 1010110111 1010111111 1101111111 11111101110 111111101 1101110111 1111011111 110101001010 1101110111 11110100110 1111111100 1010110101 1101111101 1110111101 1101101101 1101111011 01010010010 11001010101 1111101101 1011110101 11010111010 11010100111 0101110111 1101010111 0101110101 1001110011 010100100111 0101010111 1110110111 0011011101 1111011101 11110001001 1101011111 1101110101 0111011101 1001111100 1111110101 01010010001 0 0100111101 0111010001 1101110101 0101111101 1101010100 1001010100 10011111001 11010111111 0101010101 01001011011 01110010111 0101001100 1 1 1 0 111101 1111111101 1111111101 1101101001 1101010101 1001010101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 897
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 326
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; moons, had, and, full, many, thy, to, cursed, thee, in, her, she, he, you, each, other, for, one, ', my, me, with, wish, hate are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the, with, is, one, my, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines child, her, suddenly, heart, not, how are repeated).

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  • summary of Angelo;
  • central theme;
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