This is an analysis of the poem The Blue Angel that begins with:

Marlene Dietrich is singing a lament
for mechanical love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX bXaX cabb ddbX XXdd ecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010001 101001 110101001 10011011 10111 0100100 010111011 11011 01010111 0101011 1010010111 001011 11011110 1001001 1100101 1101 11001111 101000010 0010101011 0101111 11111101 010101 11111101 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Blue Angel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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