This is an analysis of the poem What Demons Do that begins with:
I've heard it said,
When visiting on foreign shores......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde XdafXg cXbbfXebgbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11001101 110111010 1110 0111101 1 1110 101110101 100101101 110111 110101 111010111010 110101 101001010 11111101 1011001111 1101 1011101 0100001 001001 110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; or is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Demons Do;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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