This is an analysis of the poem The Angel-Thief that begins with:
TIME is a thief who leaves his tools behind him;
He comes by night, he vanishes at dawn;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xccc dede bebe bfbf gcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011101011 1111110011 11011111011 1111010111 11011101110 0101010101 11110111010 0111010111 111111001011 11001111101 10010111011 0101010011 11111101110 1111010101 11011100010 1001010111 11010101110 1101111111 11110100010 11000110101 11010111110 1111110111 11010111010 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, our, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Angel-Thief;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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