This is an analysis of the poem The Beggar And The Angel that begins with:
An angel burdened with self-pity
Came out of heaven to a modern city....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc da ee dX fX gg dd ee dd XX hh eX fX gg iX fX hX Xd bX fX jj kk ii Xf ka ll bX eX cc ee dd iX cc mm kk ff kX nn dd ff XX dd dd cc bbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100110 11010001010 11010101 1010101 010111001 11010101 01011101 10010100 01011101 01010101 110101011 1110100 11110100 11010100 11100101 11010101 11111101 11100101 0110100110 110010010110 01110101 10010101 11110111 11010110 11011111 11110101 10011111 11010011 01010101 11111110 010101001 11011101 11111101 011101111 111100101 1111101011 01011011 1111010111 01010000 10111101 11010111 01011101 11010101 11111100 01011101 01010101 01111101 0110001 01010101 01011101 0111001110 01011111 110101110 11010110 1100101110 010111010 11110001 01000100 11110111 0101110 01010100 11110111 010010001 11010101 11011111 11110001 111011001 110101110 01000101 11010101 110010101 01000101 11010101 11011101 10010001 11010101 11010101 1101110 11010001 01110101 11011001 11010101 00110101 01011011 11101010110 1011101010 11100101 101100101 1110011101 010101101 11111111 11010101 01010101 01101101 110011110 01001100
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, ', i, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, the are repeated.
The author used the same words a, the, that, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- history of its creation;
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