This is an analysis of the poem The Four Angels that begins with:
As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree
The Angel of the Earth came down, and offered Earth in fee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbcXX AaddcXX AabbcXd AabbcXb eeccccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010010101 01000111110101 1100110 10111110 10101101110 1111011000 010101 1101010010101 01000101010101 1101110 10111010 10100111110 1111010101 010101 1101010010101 01000111010101 1100110 10111010 10101101110 1111011000 010101 1101010010101 010001011110111 11101110 10101110 1010101010 1111111000 010101 1101010110101 11011101110111 1101010 10100010 011101110 110101010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fire, he, used are repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, 'em are repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
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