This is an analysis of the poem The Deil's Forhooit His Ain that begins with:
The Deil's forhooit his ain, his ain!
The Deil's forhooit his ain!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX b cdXX XXXe XfXf dXdg XhXh gXXX Xbgb ijij aXae dihi da iai XdXd aXaX fXXX ifif gXgX dcXc XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100101 011001 011100101 1011001 011101101 101010111 1111101011 11100111 011 11111101011 1111101 1110010111 10011111 111010110 11111100 1010101101 01101110 1111111101 11111101 11101101011 1110101 1110110101 110111 1111111111 011100 1111010110 10111101 1110110011 1100101 10111111101 11110111 111101101 11101001 110110101 111100 110110101 1111011 1111101111 101011001 111111001 0111101 110111101 11111010 110111101 11001110 1110110101 1110111 1110101100 1010101 111110 101 11101001 11101000101 1101001 1101111001 0110001 111101110 10110111 111111101 0111111 010101111 1110101 111111101 110011 110010111 101110 11111001 10100101 1101111001 1011101 11111101 1111110 1110111101 10011101 11001101101 110101101 1011111101 1010101101 01100101 011001 011100101 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, ain, deil's, forhooit, and, there's, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, there's are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ain is repeated).
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