This is an analysis of The Angel's Kiss by Banjo Paterson.
An angel stood beside the bed
Where lay the living and the dead.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bb cc aa XX dd XX cX eeXddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 11010011 01110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 1010001011 101011111 101110100 11010110 101010101 11010001 100010111 11011100 101111111 111101010 01010101 01010101 11110001 01010101 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 23
Anaphora
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