This is an analysis of the poem Angel that begins with:

Come to me when grief is over,
When the tired eyes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 10101 11101010 11101 10111110 00101 10111110 11111 11101010 11001 11101110 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Angel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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