This is an analysis of the poem The Bread Of Angels that begins with:

AT that lost hour disowned of day and night,
The after-birth of midnight, when life's face ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdaeafagffBHhbaafia jifiejcbfabcfeaXja da jffbHc ckclbabjjjba ddjlaXce akaacafk hbbbclaf XhmXbejfmcXgbaaBHjacXjbkdjjgkjba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,18,2,6,12,8,8,8,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110010111 0101011111 1001101111 010010010001 01010110001 0101110101 0101000101 1001011111 10001001001 1101101111 0101010101 01010101110 0111010001 0111010101 10011010 11010111110 1101010011 1101110111 1101010001 1001010001 111001101 0101000101 1101010111 10001010101 1011011101 1011111001 1101010101 10011110111 010010010001 0111011101 101101101001 11111010101 01110111001 1000110111 11001001111 1101110001 01110011101 11010100100 0111110101 0101000101 1101010101 0111110101 11011101110 01010011101 0101010111 1111010101 10011010 1011010110 0111010001 1101010001 0011111101 1100010101 00010010011 10010010111 1011010001 1101110101 1111011101 0101010111 0111000101 1011010111 1111010111 01011101010 1101110011 1101010111 1011110101 110111101110 0100010101 1001011101 1111110111 1001001101 1001011101 1011011101 00101011101 0101110101 1101000101 1011010001 10111110110 1011110011 1101010111 1101010011 0101010101 01010101001 1001110101 1101010101 1101011101 11010011110 0111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1001 110111 11000101001 1001110101 1101010011 010110101 1010010101 0101000101 0111010101 10011010 1101010101 0011000101 1000110001 1101010100 0011000100 111101000010 0101101101 0101000101 0101101101 01010101001 1001010101 0111000101 1011010100 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dead connects the lines.

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