This is an analysis of the poem Poor Angels that begins with:

At this hour the soul floats weightlessly
through the city streets, speechless and invisible,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb cdXe fXgc dXah XXeh fXfg XcebXgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011100 101011010100 010101010111 1010010111 01100100101 101011001010 10110101001 1100111011 101001010101 101011010010 110010011101 000101011011 10101101010 10000110001 01011010110 11001110010 10001010100 010010001101 1011101011 111100111 111100100100 011101001001 00100101010 11100100101 11101100110 011010101001 101010011011 01011011010 1001111011 111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Poor Angels;
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