This is an analysis of the poem Devils that begins with:
Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover;
Flying snow is set alight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABcDcd efefgggg ehehaXaX ABABabiX jijidDdd jcjcfifi ABABebeb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1010101 10111110 1010101 11111010 1011111 11101010 1010001 10101110 1011101 11101010 1111101 11111010 1111101 11111010 1111101 11111010 1010011 11100010 1001101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1010001 11101110 1010101 10111110 1010101 11111010 1000111 10101111 1110101 10101010 1010111 10101010 1010111 10111010 1011111 10101010 1010100 10101010 0010101 10100110 1010101 10111110 1010111 00101010 10100101 11101110 1010101 10111110 1010101 10101010 1000101 101010010 1010111 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; din is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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