This is an analysis of the poem The Swamp Angel that begins with:
There is a coal-black Angel
With a thick Afric lip,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefXe dgXgfgXg hahaXifi hfhfejehgfg Xcacaejedchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,11,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110 001101 1111010110 00110111 101001010 101001001 11100110 10 1110101 111010010 101001101 1011110010 101001001 1010110010 11001001 1011011010 111101 011010010 0111101 010010010 1100101 110110110 01001101 0010010010 01101001 10010010 1101111 10101010 11011001 1011001 1010110110 11001001 110010010 1100111 110111010 11101101 000110010 1101101 11101110 0100111 10110110 0111011 110110010 00101001 11101010 11111101 11101010 101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, by, and, which are repeated.
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- summary of The Swamp Angel;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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