This is an analysis of the poem Exorcism that begins with:
I know who's scratching at the door.
Clock, there's no use yawning. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xccc cdcd eXXa Xcff gXeg hchc iehe iaeaXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111110 11111001 1101010 01110101 1101010 11110100 1111010 111110 111111 111111110 111101 11110101 111101 11010101 111101 111011 10010 10010110 001010 11111 11110 11001 1010011 01100010 1001010 01100010 1001010 1000011 110101 1001010 100101 1100010 110001 1111110 110011 10110101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; your, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Exorcism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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