This is an analysis of the poem The Devil's Walk. A Ballad that begins with:
I.
Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XXdXed Xfagga Xgaga aXege ahebge Xhihhi XijijXhj Xcfccf Xjbjjjb ajfajaf XiiXkka Xlhlh Xfafa XaaXbX Xmgmg Xnhnh XahXh Xbcbccc Ximimim Xofof Xffff Xaimcci Xlnln Xgcgc Xejejjj Xigig Xmfaf XfaXa Xahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,5,5,6,6,8,6,7,7,7,5,5,6,5,5,5,7,7,5,5,7,5,5,7,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110001010001 010110010 1110111 1 111010101 111010101 0100110110 10101111001 111101 1 11110101 011101 00100110101 1010110011 010101 1 110110111 111111101 1110101001 110101111 1 0101110000 1111101 010100111 1101111 1 1101101101 01001101 1001111001 11101000101 11101001 1 101011001011 111101001 11001101011 110011101011 10101101 1 011111010101 11000111 011001001 01011101 11111101011 1010101100010 01101111 1 10110101 11111101 101001001101 1101011001 110101 1 1111001000 11001110110 11110101 11101001011 1100100101 101011110 1 11011111 11100101 11010101 1010111001 1100101 01001001 1 110111101 1100100101 1101100 11101001101 1100101011 1110101 1 11010001 11001001 111101001 111101 1 11110101 11011101 101010101 110101001 1 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011111 011101 1 110101110 11010111 010101010 11010111 1 0101010110 110100111 11001110010 11010011 1 1010100101 111010010 0010111000 001001110 1 010101110 001101 110101010 10111101 100101110 110101 1 11111101 01010100 11111001 11010100 1101001001 10110100 1 01011111 01011111 1100111001 10110101 1 11010101 11111101 11001111 11110101 1 11001001011 1110101 111101100 1111101101 111011101 11110001 1 01010101 0101011010 011101001 010101010 1 10110101 01010111 11001001001 10110101 1 110001101 01010101 01110111 010100101 01110111 11011101 1 1011111 11111001 1010011 1110101 1 01110100 01011101 100101001 11000101 1 10010111 11010101 010010011 11110111 1 1010101 1110101 0110110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 172
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, of, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, but, they, where, that, the, as are repeated.
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