Evil As You Like It by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Evil As You Like It that begins with:

Evil to entice.
To have me take a bite....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBC cdcbbb bededeffAD ABBC eXXADABBC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,10,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001 011101 1101110 0101 11011100101 1100010 110101101 00110010 0101111001 0110010010011 01111010 011101110100 01101010111 1010011100 0010101010 111101001100 11 1101 1110111 11101101 10001 011101 1101110 0101 110 011110111 1110111 11101101 10001 011101 1101110 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, take are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines here is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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  • central theme;
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