This is an analysis of the poem The Devil In Hell that begins with:

HE surely must be wrong who loving fears;
And does not flee when beauty first appears....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffffXghhiijjgg ffggkkggbbgg ddcclljjXkkkggiiaajjffffaam mnnccff ffkkffkk ddgg ffff ddooccffgg jjgg ffffccjjgg ffffccooaa ddllppjjjjgg ggjjffllffcc llaaffkkiijj ggjjgg ggddggiiggccllffggggffaajjXggffggaajjkkhhggccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,12,27,7,8,4,4,10,4,10,10,12,12,12,6,47,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111110101 1101011111 1111110001 0101010101 1001010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101010111 1101010001 1101010101 1100010101 1101110101 0101010111 0101011101 1100100101 01011111110 1001110011 1101110101 1101010111 11011010111 0101111101 0101000101 1101000101 1101010101 1111011111 01110001101 1100010001 1101010101 1101010101 0100010101 01010001101 1111010101 1111000101 1101011011 1100110101 0101010101 1001110001 0101010001 0101011101 1111111111 1111010101 111111110 1101011011 110110011 0111001110 11010111010 0001101101 1111010011 0100110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101001101 0101111101 1111010111 110111101 1111010101 1111010001 1101010101 1101011111 1100110101 1100010101 11011111001 0101110111 1101111101 1111110111 1101110111 0101111101 1101011101 1101110111 01010000111 1101110101 0111110101 0111011101 1101000101 0101010101 0111010001 1111010011 1101110101 0101000101 1101110101 1111110001 1100110101 0101011101 1100110111 1101011111 0101011101 1111010001 1001011111 1111111110 0101010101 1111100101 1101010001 1101010101 1100111101 0101011111 1101110101 1011010101 1100111001 1101011101 1111010001 0111010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101010111 1111110101 0101111101 1111010111 0101010101 1101010111 0111010101 1101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1101010101 011010101 0101010101 0101110111 0101010101 1111010001 1101111101 0111001101 1111110011 0100110111 1001110101 1111111101 0011110001 1101010110 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 0111110101 01000010111 1101011100 1101000101 1111010011 1011110101 1101110001 1101000101 0111110111 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1111000110 0100111101 1101010101 0101110111 1101110101 0101010001 1101110101 01010101001 01001110101 1101011111 1101010001 1110000001 0101010001 1101011101 1111110011 1111100101 0101011111 1101001101 1100110101 1101111101 1100010101 1111110101 11010001010 1101110001 0101011101 0111011111 01010000101 1100110001 0001010111 1100110101 1101010101 1101100101 0111111101 0101001111 1100110101 0111010101 0100011101 1100110101 0101001101 0100010001 1101010101 0101111101 1111110101 1101000110 1100110101 1101000101 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 0111010001 1111111101 1101011111 1111010111 0101110111 0101110011 1100010101 1111110101 0111110101 1101110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, and, he, have are repeated.

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  • summary of The Devil In Hell;
  • central theme;
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