This is an analysis of the poem The Exorcists that begins with:
Then the apostle wonders wrought,
And healed the sick, in Jesus' name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fefe gXgX hfhf ijij kfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11011111 11010111 11010001 01010111 01010001 10111111 11110111 11111111 01010111 11010101 10110111 11010101 10110111 01010101 01010111 110101010 11111101 11000101 11110101 11111101 10110101 10111111 11010101 01010111 11010101 10111101 11011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, but are repeated.
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