This is an analysis of the poem The Angel Mother that begins with:

I HAD a vision of the dear departed,
The while stone-dead to outer thing I lay;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab aXaa cccc dede fgfg ahXh dada agag hhXh dgdg dihi jbjX XkXk lmlm gdgd lmlm hbhb flfl eaea cccc hnhn cacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010001010 0111010111 11111101010 1110101101 11010111010 110100101000 11110111110 10111011001 11010001110 10001010111 11110011010 1011011101 11111101110 01001010001 10010101010 1101011101 11010101010 0101010111 10110101010 0111111101 10011011111 0101000101 01011111000 0101111101 11011101110 0111011101 11010101010 1101110111 11010101010 01110100001 11010111010 1111011101 110100100010 1111010101 01010101100 0101000101 10110101110 1100111101 01010100010 1111000101 11010001110 1111111011 10010000110 0101110111 101111111110 10111011101 11011101010 1111011101 1110010111 1101011111 01100101010 1101010001 11011111010 1101111101 11110011010 1111110101 11010101010 1101000101 11111110010 1111111101 11010001011 1111010111 11010101011 1101110011 11010100010 1101001101 11110101010 0111111101 11110111110 0001011101 01001111010 11010111001 11110100110 1101000011 11001000110 0101001111 11110101110 0101011101 110101001010 1111010101 10010111010 01001110101 01110011010 0111010101 10011100010 0101110111 110101001010 11001001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, same, and, to, see, of, he, them, by, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i, and, touch'd are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'the, 'i, 'alive at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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