This is an analysis of the poem The Angel Of The Church that begins with:
I.
Aye, strike with sacrilegious aim... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbdbd X Xefefdfd X gXgXXhXh X babibfbf a fdfXacic a fefejgjg X cfcfcfcf X hbhbfkfk X hXhadcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11010101 01000101 11011101 1101100111 11010101 11001001 11010101 11110101 1 11110101 10010101 11111101 01110101 01110001 11010101 110101001 11010101 1 010111001 11110101 011010111 0111001001 01001101 0100101110 011001001 0101001010 1 11110001 11011111 100100101 11110100 11111101 1001110011 110111001 01010101 1 11011101 11010101 11010111 110101110 11110111 01011101 01111100 010000101 1 11110101 01010101 01010101 01110100 101011101 11010111 10110001 01010101 1 11111101 11010101 11110001 11010101 10010101 1111010110 110001001 110111001 1 11110101 11110001 1101011 11000111 10010101 11011101 11110101 110101001 1 10001111 110101010 01011111 0100101111 11000111 01110001 11111101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; our, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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