This is an analysis of the poem Air And Angels that begins with:

Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabacdcddddd effXfecXcgghha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 01111111 1001100101 1001111100 11011111 11010010101 11111110 1101111101 11010100 1110110101 11111111 111111 1001110101 1101011111 11010111 111100011 011111010 1111110100 10011110101 0111110101 11010101 0111011110 11110111 0111101111 11110111 110100 1011110100 1101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, to are repeated.

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