This is an analysis of the poem I Heard An Angel that begins with:
I heard an Angel singing
When the day was springing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd bXee cXddXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 101110 10101 001100 11111 100111 10111 11011 110101 1001101 101011 0111111 1101110 01011011 1010111 1010101 110101 100111 110001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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