This is an analysis of the poem A Story Of Doom: Book Iii. that begins with:

Above the head of great Methuselah
There lay two demons in the opened roof... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabccc cbde fgggeheiib ifjkcgXb ddeblmnoebfbmecpfblgbpfh qbgbenenggkebgbebXfigbbee epbcjlcgiggf legeeXrpgceileglXllheneX dbeggXbsfgelldnfibXeegkbelXnpoqoXX dfs XXnkcXeeekdceefbpXeikeao eeXgsslkbbtX el XngfX egqeebleXalsk lenceX liXseX gbqibgq gogbXibsle g
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,10,8,24,25,12,24,34,3,24,12,2,5,13,6,6,7,10,22,4,28,6,8,19,18,17,22,45,2,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010100 1111000101 0100110101 1101010101 0111010100 1101110101 1101011101 1111110111 0101101011 1110000011 1101011111 101010100111 0101001111 0111111101 10101001101 1100011100 01010100101 10011010011 1101000111 0111 110101 11110101101 1001011101 1001010101 01111101101 1110111101 11010111100 1101011101 1111010101 0111010101 0101010111 1100110100 1101010111 1101011111 1101110101 10010101111 11010100111 1101011101 1111011101 1101110101 0111110101 11010010101 1101110011 1101101101 1111011111 1111010101 1101111011 1101011111 1100110111 1101011001 1101110101 1101110 101 1100110101 0001011111 1101011001 1111010011 0101011101 1001011101 1100010101 11001011101 1001010101 11000111 1101010101 01010100101 1101010111 11010110101 1101010111 1101010111 1100010010 0101100101 0111010101 0011110101 00100110101 10101010111 0101011100 11110111 01 1001011101 1111000101 1011010101 11111101001 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 0011010101 1101010101 01011101001 11010011101 1001011101 1100111101 0111010101 00111010001 11110001001 0101010101 0101110101 10010100111 1101100111 1101010101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010001 110010011101 1111011101 1101111101 1011010111 1001011111 0110010101 1011100100 1111011001 0111000101 1101010101 11010111110 01111100111 0101010101 0101010111 1100100111 1101011101 0101010100 11010011101 1111001101 011110101 010010100111 1101111011 1011010101 1101010001 0101000111 1101110111 1101110101 111101011 1111110101 010011001010 1001010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111111101 11010101101 11011101001 11010101001 0101111101 1101011111 01011001111 11010101001 1101011001 0101010101 1101011000 01011000110 1111010111 1011010101 1101010101 1111011000 1111111111 1101010111 1111100101 11001010101 0101110101 1110010101 1101110101 1101011100 0101010101 1101010101 0101001101 0101011111 1101010101 0100010101 0101011101 1101011101 0100010011 1001010101 0001000101 1101110001 1111110101 01010101001 11110 10111 1101111111 101100101111 1101011101 110100001100 1001111111 1111010111 1100111111 11101110101 1101011101 11011100110 011011 1111 010100101 110 1111011111 1111010001 0111010001 000101 0101 1101111111 0101011011 11010001001 1111111111 0101010101 1101011111 1001010101 1101111111 1101110101 1100101111 1110010011 001011001 11 11111111001 01010010101 0101011101 0111010101 110101010 01 1101010111 1111011000 0111011101 1101010111 1110011110 11101011111 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101010011 1101101101 10100001 1111 0101110101 0101110111 1111010111 1101110101 1101010100 01010110101 11111100011 0100011101 1111110111 1101111101 11110100101 0101111011 11011100111 11101010111 0100111101 11111001110 01111101010 1111011110 0111010101 1101011101 1101011111 1101010111 010100011 0101110101 1111010011 0101110101 0100010001 1100010111 1011010111 1101010111 10010011000 1101100101 1101111011 1111011101 1011110001 10101010101 00101010001 11110100100 0101111101 0011110011 1100100001 0111110101 1101110100 1001001111 1101010101 11111001101 11110010111 0101010111 0101110101 1111010101 100010100 1011010101 11001010101 11011100001 11011000101 1101011101 01001110001 1111110101 1101010101 1101101111 0101010111 01010000101 111101 1101 0101010001 0101010111 1100010100 0101010111 1111110001 1101111101 1101110101 0111000100 0101010001 11111011111 1111010011 1111011111 1101110101 11110101001 1001001101 0111010111 0111000101 1101011111 1111010111 1101010101 1011111101 1011010011 1011011111 11110110011 1101110101 0101110101 1111010010 1111100110 1100010101 1101011111 1101000101 1100111111 1101110101 01001101101 1101011101 1111000111 10010100111 01000101001 11110011111 01110 010111 100100100101 1001010111 01010011111 1111011111 01010100101 1101010101 11111111001 1111011101 10011111111 0101110111 11010111110 1111011101 0100011101 01010011111 0011010111 1010011011 11101110110 1111111111 01011101101 0100011011 1111110111 1101011010 1111011111 1101010011 1001000101 01101101010 01010101001 1101011101 10111101110 11100111110 1101111101 1111010001 00101111101 1101011101 1101011101 1110000101 1101010111 1101110101 1111010101 0011011111 1101000101 1011110111 1111110101 110011111010 1111110101 1001010111 1001000101 01010111010 0101010101 01010111101 0101010111 0101110011 0101110111 0111001101 1101011101 1111010101 1001011101 1111110101 0101010101 0111110101 0110110101 10011011101 1111001101 1101000101 10101110011 11010111001 1101111111 110100111 1111111111 1111011101 1101011111 101110111 10110101101 1101111111 11101010011 0101101111 010010011 1101011111 1011111111 1000110111 1101010111 00101110101 1111110011 0111111111 1101111101 1101111101 1001011100 1111010001 0101011101 1111011111 1101010111 0101111111 11000101010 1111011101 1111111111 1111010100 1101011001 1111010101 1001010011 1011010101 1101111101 1111011101 0100110101 0101110011 01001011101 1101010111 00101011101 0101111110 11111111111 11001010111 10010101001 0101000111 1101011101 1101010101 1110001101 1011010101 1011010111 1100111101 0100110100 1111011001 1101010101 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 453
  • 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; in, and, it, that, him, of, his, he, not, thy, thou, i, they, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, they, a, the, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words now, and 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 ' is repeated).

    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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  • summary of A Story Of Doom: Book Iii.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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