This is an analysis of the poem Guardian Angels that begins with:
Brothers; even those of you who are already in the sear and yellow leaf, and full of years and iniquity,
Sometimes, I doubt not, let your thoughts... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddcceebXbff gggghbhhbhbbcdceiejkcXXlm Xmiinjjlloojkkeecicff iijjnddeelileeXdbhbppmm kkXononknjdXjgog
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,25,21,23,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110100011101110010100 011111111101100100 11011001101 10110101 110111 11100000010101 1111011110001001 111110110001101 01011100101101110111 100111001110101 101011101 11001011101 10101 011010101111111 0111101 10110111001011010000 101011 10110101 1101001101 10 1110100101010 010100101010010 10010001111010100010 1110101001101001 10101100110010110101 101011 100101111 1000111010100111001101 100100001 1111111001 1101010101000111 11011101 00100111101011111110 01001 11110111 11111110110100101 101001110010111 1011101111011010 11101101111001111 1101111110100010 10000 1111010101110011111 1011011001010 00101 11111001000111010101110 01 1101011101 1001100001 101011101111101011 100010 101100010 0100101010100111 00100110101001010101 01001010100101011 01110110110010111 1100101001010101000100 100110111010111 10111011 110101001000010111 11101111010100101 1101 111101010010101010010 111 111110010010101101 11110010000101101101 100100101101 111101011 0010 01000010010010 0001000110011111111 10001000111001 10100100001011 01010100100110101 111010101010101 111000010101100001 1101101011010111101001 101001001 111111 11 11111010 111101100100001111 101 11110100010111101001001 001 1101010101101110101010 111101010000101100010 110100101011010010111 101101010101001001 101111101 00100001 111001100101111010010 1001011010101 110100010110101111010 010101 11100011111101 1011111010111000100 111101 11111011101001010101 00101010101111011010100 111010010010010110001 001 11111101010 1101001100101110101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1098
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, of, and, you, our, we, have, he, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, in, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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