Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benet: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Poor Devil! that begins with:

Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk,
The tiresome noises, all the common things ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabacd dceXXXeffccgXhhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110010101 01001010101 1111101101 1110110101 1001011111 1101100101 1001111101 1001000101 1101010011 1101011111 11110101110 1111010111 1101010111 1101110111 01111111010 1111010111 1101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1111111111 101110001100 1001010100 1001000100 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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