This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of Praise The Angels Sang that begins with:
Songs of praise the angels sang,
Heav’n with alleluias rang,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcX ccdd eeff gghh ddccXffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 101001 1010110 1111011 1010101 1010111 1010111 1010100 1111101 1011111 1011111 1011111 1110101 11100101 1010101 1111101 1010111 1010101 1011111 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 10111001 1010101 1010111 1010101 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word songs at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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