This is an analysis of the poem The Boy And The Angel that begins with:
Morning, evening, noon and night,
``Praise God!; sang Theocrite.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb cc bX dd ee ff gX fX ee Xf aX hh cc aX dd ff aa ee ii dd XX cc gg fX XX ii bb ii Xi bb cc ii aa ee ee fX ggXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 11110 1001111 01010111 11100111 10010111 11011100 111111 11010111 11010101 110100111 11111111 11101101 01010111 01010111 10101010 1101111 11111111 1111 11011 01010110 01001101 110101111 11010110 110010101 1011101 10010101 11110101 11010111 1101010 10010111 01110101 01011101 00010001 110100111 11011110 10100111 01011001 11010011 10110011 111111 11101101 1011101 111101010 111100111 01010101 11011101 11011101 0010111 0110100 0010101 101110 110101 110111 11011101 11010101 10011111 11000111 11000101 11011111 0010111 11010101 11101101 11111011 10111101 111101001 11011101 10101 111101 01011101 01110101 1110101 10011101 101010101 101111 01110101 11010101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, and, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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