This is an analysis of the poem The Guardian Angels that begins with:
A Ballad
Father John in the green lane went...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcbdaeXfghgaiii jebekbabedbdbahakbdX blblhekXfiai ebaXXaaa kXcXkcbcdcXXbadaXeaX aaaacabXjadaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,20,12,8,20,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 10100111 1110111 111110101 1110001 11111111 0100111 11011101 1111010 11111111 011111 11111001 011101 11111111 011111 11010111 010101 01011001 110101 11010101 111111 11010011 111001 01011101 100111 11110101 110101 11011101 111101 11010101 110101 01010101 110111 11111101 011001 01111111 110110 11110101 110101 01011001 111111 11111101 011001 11111101 011100 11111101 011101 11110101 111111 11011101 110101 01011101 1000110 11110111 010101 11100111 111101 11010111 1111010 11111111 0111100 11110101 110111 11011101 010101 11110111 110111 11010101 111111 110111110 010101 10011111 110111 11010111 111101 11110101 010101 01011101 111111 11011111 111011 11111101 011101 11110111 110111 11010101 110101 11010111 111111 110010111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, his, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Guardian Angels;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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