This is an analysis of the poem Just To Delight In The Excitement Of It that begins with:

Demons wish to inflict conflict.
With a chaos and havoc, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABA Xcd cXe ABAXcede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100110 0010110 10010001000 001001 10101 1111011 0110100 1010001 00100101010 10100110 0010110 10010001000 1001001 110110 0100011011 011000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of Just To Delight In The Excitement Of It;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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