This is an analysis of the poem Hell In Texas that begins with:
The devil, we're told, in hell was chained,
and a thousand years he there remained,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb aaaacX ddeeff ffbbaa ffffff aaffgg aaccbb eeddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010110111 101001101 1110011011 10100101001 111010101 0110100101 1110101111 101111101 0111111011 1110110101 0101101011 1111110011000 10101101101 11001101111 110010001011 10100111111 1010010101 11001001001 11111011011 010001011111 10111101110 10111001010 101011111010 01001111010 1010111101 1110101001 110010001101 11101011101 1100100101 11101011101 11101000101 1100100101 01011101001 001001111001 011011101 11111111111 0101110101 11001101011 11101000111 0111011101 010010001011 11101011111 0111101101 0010011111 01101101001 01001001111 11001011101 101100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, and, on, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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