This is an analysis of the poem The Exorcists that begins with:
And I solemnly swear
on the chill of secrecy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaXb ccdcXd cefcefccgccg dahdah Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,12,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1010100 111110110 010111 1001001111 1010010111110 11101 0111001 110101101 110101 011101110 01010111101 111010 0101111 10110000111 1010111 11101111 1010110101 00100101 110101 0111011101 11101 111110101 011110001001 0101001 111001 1110101001 01100101 0010000111 111001110101 010111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; i, nor, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Exorcists;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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