This is an analysis of the poem The Hour Of The Angel that begins with:

Sooner or late--in earnest or in jest--
(But the stakes are no jest) Ithuriel's Hour... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcc aaXXaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1011010101 10111110010 00111101101 011100100110 1001001011 0101011111 0111110111 11110010111 1101110101 0101000111 1111011111 10010100101 1111111000 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; our, of are repeated.

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