This is an analysis of the poem The Temptress that begins with:
Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail,
With diabolic grin and crafty leer;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX abab cdcd efef gcgcXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 010011101 111101010101 0100110101 1111011111 0111011101 111101010011 1111010011 1111110111 1111010011 110111010111 1111010111 1111111101 1111000101 101101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111011 110101010111 1111011111 10001010101 11001010101 111011011001 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; so, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'tis is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Temptress;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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