This is an analysis of the poem The Devil's Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody that begins with:
The Devil return'd to hell by two,
And he stay'd at home till five;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaabccb dededeff gghggg Xfgfee ffdiidccjejfX ikiikiiicckdk cfcfjjaa jcjciX didieX lhihXcdd hmhmhhhkkaalX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,6,6,13,13,8,6,6,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010111 1111111 111111011010 10101101101 1100100111 110011101 1111101 1100101101 0101101101 1111110001 11111111001 11101101 11100100101 110101 11001001101 110111001 0111011111 1111110101 110111101 01000101 11101111101 11011001 1110110101 111011101011 1110101110 1100111 1100101101 110101 1100110111 11011001001 1111110101 11100100101 0101101 111001101001 111001101001 111101001 11100100101 11011111101 1011111 101111001001 10110101 1101101111 1011110101 101011101 101001010 1010110101 110100111 001101010 11010111 11101001101 1110100101 1110100101 001011111 0101010 101010101001 101001010 1010111111 1101111 0010011111 1111001 1110111010 010101010 111001001001 11101111011 0101111101 010101 10100101101 111101 10111111 1011011101 111110101 111111 10100111001 010101 10100110101 11101110 010110110 1110110010 1111110001001 111101010 111101101000 111101101001 111101111011 11111110101 11011011001 0101010010 11001001011 110110110 1110101101 01010111 0100110100 111111001010 010110110110 101011111111 111111101001 011011110110 1110110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, to, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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