This is an analysis of the poem Sick Of Their Tricks that begins with:
I've had it with demons and sick of their tricks.
I've witnessed their tactics......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB CXd AAB eee CXdXXAABb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011011 110110 0010101 110010010100 101011010010 0101101 11001011011 110110 0010101 11011001001010 0111010110 11001011111 110010010100 10101101001000 010100101 010001001101101 11001011011 110110 0010101 1100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, them, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
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- summary of Sick Of Their Tricks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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