This is an analysis of the poem Wonder that begins with:
How like an angel came I down!
How bright are all things here!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXcdc Xbbebfbf eggegaga hiihieXe iaaidhdh haahbebe XeeiiiiiXaeeahaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 111111 1101011001 11110101 0101000100 011101 11011101 0011 01011000 010101 1101111111 01010111 1101011111 111101 10110101 0101 01011100 011101 1111010101 11010011 1111010101 010111 11000101 1101 11010001 010111 1101100101 01110101 1101010101 010100 11111100 0111 01010101 011101 1101110101 01010101 0111010101 110011111 11110101 0101 1101111 010111 1101011111 11010101 1101010001 010111 11111101 1100 1101100 010100 11111110101 10010011 1101010101 111101 11010111 1101 1000101 110100 1101011110 0101111110 1101010101 111101 11110101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; how, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, the are repeated.
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- summary of Wonder;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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