This is an analysis of the poem Songs Set To Music: 26. that begins with:
Some kind angel, gently flying,
Moved with pity at my pain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010111 11101110 1011101 11101110 1110101 11101010 0110101 10101010 1110101 101001010 1110011 10111010 0101111 10111010 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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