This is an analysis of the poem The Devil's Thoughts that begins with:
From his brimstone bed at break of day
A walking the DEVIL is gone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba Xcdd Xbeb fgeg fhah Xifi ehbbX Xbcb fajja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001011101 01001001 01001011001 1110111 100111001 1111001 11011011011 101001001 11110101 11100111 01011101001 1110110111 1101010010 101101010 10101101101 01101010 010001011 1110010 101010011 1001010 11010001011 01000100 10100110101 01110100 1100011001 111110110 11111101001 1101010 1010110111 01010100 101011111101 010111011001 1100101000 111111111 010101 101011101101 101001001 100101 1101010 110101011 1010110101 011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, over, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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