This is an analysis of the poem The Angel's Kiss that begins with:
An angel stood beside the bed
Where lay the living and the dead. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bb cc aa XX dd XX cX eeXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 11010011 01110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 1010001011 101011111 101110100 11010110 101010101 11010001 100010111 11011100 101111111 111101010 01010101 01010101 11110001 01010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Angel's Kiss;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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