This is an analysis of the poem I Say, Teach Me Who You Are, Azrael that begins with:
I say, teach me who you are, Azrael,
And the dark angel rose in the sky,...
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa XbX cbaddd ecaX XdXebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 101101001 10011101 0110011011 01000100101 101110010011 11011 1110101 0110101 11001110010 001011 1010 11110101 1111011011 111010001 01001100 11101011 10101010101 110101010101 10011011 111011010111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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