This is an analysis of the poem Evil that begins with:
NOT Beelzebub, but white archangel, I
Turn the dim glass and shift the sands again, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacddceeXaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1100111101 1011110101 1101100101 1101011101 01100011111 1111011111 01010101000 0101111101 01001010011 01111101001 0101011111 1101010010 1101011101 1111000101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Evil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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