This is an analysis of the poem Demons Keep Active that begins with:
Everyday demons keep active.
Busy reminding victims who have healed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXaa Xccbde dadfffX XXeegc X gcX XXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 1001010111 110100100100 100111000 10011100001 010100100101 11111110101 1101101 011010010111 110010101010 0110010100010010 10111010111111 110101101011 11 110101101011 110101 1 110101 11 010 011010 110101010 01 1111001101 1010101 1101101 0011101 101111111010 1110101011 1100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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