This is an analysis of the poem Angels that begins with:
Came of old to houses lonely
Men with wings, but did not show them:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10110110 10101110 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 Angels;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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