This is an analysis of the poem Ghoul Care that begins with:

Sour fiend, go home and tell the Pit
For once you met your master, - ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaabcBcXdcBcXdcBcXdXbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101 1111110 01110001 1101010 0101010 01011101 1111010 11011001 0101110 0101110 01011111 1111010 11011001 0101110 0101110 01011101 0101010 11011001 1101110 0101110 11111011 0101110 01011101 0110110 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 807
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines disaster, master are repeated).

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