This is an analysis of the poem The Followers that begins with:
One day I caught up with my angel, she
Who calls me bell-like from a sky-touched tower....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbaaXXXcXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101101 11111001110 10111101010 0011011100 01011000100 10111110010 11000101010 1101101101 1111010110 1111010111 1111010111 11000101110 1001011101 1111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- summary of The Followers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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