This is an analysis of the poem An Angel Unawares that begins with:
Ye gave me your broken meat
And of your lees o' wine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcb Xdad aaXa dcdc deXeXebaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 101111 11111111 111101 11110001 110111 11111011 010001 11101101 101101 10110001 011111 11111111 111101 11111111 110111 01110111 111011 11110101 110101 11110111 110111 01111101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Angel Unawares;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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