This is an analysis of the poem Evil Business that begins with:
Desperate are the demons losing control.
With a fixed foothold on which beliefs, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcdb beefe AfXfce AXXddggbf feX HBBB HBBB GB aHBBB HBBB GBGB aHBBBXHBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,9,3,4,4,2,5,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101001 001111101 10100001 0010110 110001 101110 01011101 1100101101 1011110101 01010111 10010101001 01010001111 110101101000 110010001001 1010101101 1010101111 10010101001 1100111101101 1010010101001 0010010001101 1010010111111 11100100100111 10010101001100101 001000101110001 11010100 11111010111 1001 101011011110 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010 11000 01010 1 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010 11000 01010 11000 01010 1 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010 1100101 0010010 1110101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, evil are repeated.
The author used the same words desperate, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word business at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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