This is an analysis of the poem The Two Angels that begins with:
Once Youth and Innocence, side by side,
With flaming swords at a garden gate... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc aeea XffX XaaX bggb ehhe caaX bhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111100111 010110101 110100111 111101101 110101101 110100111 1101101100 110100101 111110101 1011110111 011110111 1101010111 1111101010 111100101 110100101 1111101010 110101101 111110101 111100101 1101001010 111100111 111101101 010111101 011100101 1100110111 110110101 110100101 111100101 111111111 111101111 111110101 1100100111 110101111 110101111 111111101 1011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, in, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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