This is an analysis of the poem The Church that begins with:
Painted angels guard the altars;
And rest and shadows; beam from blue eyes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a X b X X X X a X X b a a aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101010 111111011 00111011 101010100100 001100101 01010100010 01011101 1111001101 0101101100 01100111010 101001101 0101010001 01010101011 10111011 011100111 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 39
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Church;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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