This is an analysis of the poem The Woman And The Angel that begins with:
An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street;
His halo was tilted sideways, and his harp lay mute at his feet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc bbbb XXXX ddeX ddeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010111000101 0101101110111101 1010100101110101 10100100110100101 1100010101100101 11010101110101 01010010100111 1011111101011101 10111110101001 1011010100101 010100110101101 1110100101111011 1111111001001000 1110011011101110110100 111101101111111111 11011110101011110 110110101101101 101110010111001001 11110110111111011 01010100001001110 10101101011101001 110101101101011 11001101010101001 11010100001001110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wrong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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