This is an analysis of the poem The Demon In Me that begins with:

The demon in me's not dead,
He's living, and well....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXXefXXfXeXcecefXXeghghhXhdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111 11011 00101001 0011001 01011 01001 10010100 01010 1110001 0110 00101010 001010010 111010 1011 101001 11001 1110010 11111 00101010 1011 1011010 11001 00101001 00110010 10110 1101 00101001 00101001 00101010 1101 001010010 00101001 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
  • Average number of words per stanza: 165
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, body, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, we are repeated.

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  • summary of The Demon In Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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