This is an analysis of Angel Faces by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.

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I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a abbaaccaddeffe X faaffccfddeXXe
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
  • Metre: 1 1111010111 1101111111 1111010101 1111011011 1100110111 1111111101 1111010111 0101110111 11010101011 0101110011 1100010111 11110100101 1011010111 01101110111 1 1001110101 01010111001 1111110101 10001000111 1001011111 11110100101 1011000101 10010010101 0101111111 1101011101 01010010101 1101011111 111011011100 111111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

i, them

Anaphora

i

Epiphora

i

Anadiplosis

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