This is an analysis of the poem Mons Angelorum that begins with:

MOSES, JOSHUA, THE THREE ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE
Evening: a slope of Pisgah ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X bcdefghiajk kfi gfbdifbbbcbXkbbXX ealkck cjcj dc mhXjbbcXlno dlf cpmfqcbbakl fpaj abbjcbbraaj jfXljbckcg qccjal a abiXljjkcqqibboXh niXcfqf idXqd faajgcqh afbbcicicjcjbibmXgabcXlqdXrci ancefhj iqcXccjXc ijbbbcli cajbbnibog nbbchdckfj bbeccnbi cccjajii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,11,3,17,6,4,2,11,3,11,4,11,10,6,1,17,7,5,8,29,7,9,8,10,10,8,12,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10100011000101 1001010 1011010100000 1101110001 010010100010 1001010001 01010010001 1001110101 1100011011 1011110001 10110011111 1011011101 1011011011 1001100111101 01000101011 11110010 10111 11010111101 1011110101 0101010100 10010011111 0101011101 1111010101 1011010111 1101010001 1111010001 0101010111 1011110110 1101010101 11010101001 010101100010 1111010010 1011010 1001101 1101111101 1111011101 1111110111 1001010101 1111110 10111 10110100010 1101010111 111101 10001010 1101010011 1011010101110 1001110001 000111 111 1001011001 0101010101 1001010100 1111011000 1111000101 10001110001 111011 10011010 11010111010 1011111101 1010011110100 0101010101 01001010100 0101010011 1001110011 1101001101 1001010001 10110101010 1101010101 0001110011 1101001111 1001111011101 1101010101 0101110011 1001010 10111 1001010011 11010011010 1111110011 1111110101 01110101101 0111011101 1101011100 1111011101 1101110101 1011100011 1000111011101 0101011101 1011010100 110100 1101 1111011011 1001110111 1111110111 1101010111 1111 10000101 1001110101 11011101001 01010011111 01001010001 1111011111 1001010110 1101010011 01001101001 1001110100 1101110100 1011011111 1110010101 10000100101 1001010001 1001111101 010010010101 01110111001 11011111000 10010111001 1011010101 1111111101 01010011000 101101 100101011 0101110001 0111110110 1001110001 10110101011 1101011111 1111111 1001101 110101101010 10111011010 01001011111 1111110 10011011 11011101010 1001010111 00110101010 1101011101 0101110101 1111111111 111111 1011010 0011010001 11001011100 1101101101 11001110001 01010011010 010001 11110 01000011111 1011010111 10011111010 010101 1101 0101011011 0100010111 0111010100 1001110111 1111110111 1011100101 101010101 1011010101 10110100100 1001010100 1001100111 10011001010 010101011000 1011010111 1111110011 11111011010 1101111100 0101111011 11001010101 11001011011 11010101001 1101011011 110101 10011001 11001010001 0101010111 1110111101 1111111011 10110100101 0101010101 1011110111 1010101 1011001 1111100111 0111110011 11010101001 1011010011 0011111011 1101010001 11010111110 100101011100101 100010101110 0111010001 1110011011 1101110101 0011111101 1111111101 1101010111 110101111 1100111 101111 0101110111 0001010100 01010111001 1101100101 110100010010 0111010001 1101010111 1011010111 01001010 1001101 1001110011 1101111111 1100010101 1001010011 1011011101 1001010001 1101110101 100101101110101 1101010101 1001010101 11011011110 1001010101 1101010101 0011001011 100101001011 11010100101 1001011101 11010110011 1111011111 010011111 0100101010001 0111111101 0101110111 01101100111 1101011100 1001110000 100101111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, having, i, down, to, and, with, my, wings, no, thy, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words having, down, to, her, and, a, no, o, the are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases down, wings connect the lines.

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