This is an analysis of the poem Our Guardian Angels And Their Children that begins with:
Where a river roars in rapids
And doves in maples fret,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdad efcf dgXg hccc gege hiei aaaa jfcf Xgkg cbjb jfaf glllXgckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 110101 1111010 1100101 1111110 0101001 11010101 010101 01010111 1100101 1110110 111101 1101010 110111 11000111 110101 101111 1011010 111110 1111010 11010010 111010 11000100 110101 1101010 110111 0100110 010101 110101 010101 11010101 110101 1101010 010101 1101010 010101 1111010 110111 11010101 110101 1100010 110101 1101010 111101 1101110 111101 1000101 010111 1101010 111101 1111101 111111 0111110 1101010 11010100 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, nor, we, their, they are repeated.
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