This is an analysis of the poem On Angels that begins with:
All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca dba eeXXX cfX Xadf Xbf egg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,3,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101110 110010 11011 100 110101011 010100100111 1101001101 10111 111101001000101 00100010101 10010101101 101101010 1111010101 1010111010 10100100111 0111000101 1010110010010 101110111 1000100 111111001101 11011101111 1101101010101 111 0101 1111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of On Angels;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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