This is an analysis of the poem When Angels Come that begins with:
I didn't believe in angels,
Until one came to appear to me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbacXX XAbbcb ACDDdd ACDDXc BC BC ADcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 011100101 011110111 001 111101 110 1 11001010 0111011101 1110111 011101 1010101 01111010110 111001001 11111011 1011111 001 101 01111010110 111001001 11111011 1011111 1 01111 11010101 1110111 11010101 1110111 01111010110 11111011 1101111 1101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, come, me, angels are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same words in, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word leave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of When Angels Come;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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