This is an analysis of St. Peter And The Angel by Denise Levertov.

Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abc cbdeXa afe ffXXbdbXeXegXg
  • Stanza lengths: 3,6,3,14,
  • Metre: 01010101001 101010110 01111 10011 1010 1101100100 1 101011 0101001001 111010101 1001011 11011 11111010111 01110101 001010010010 111101 11101101 01111100 10111010010 1110111100 10101 110111101 11111111001 10110 0110011 011001011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the