This is an analysis of the poem Demon And Beast that begins with:

FOR certain minutes at the least
That crafty demon and that loud beast... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbccddeeffccgghhiijjhhddjXbbkgccllaakkdXkghhlX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110101111 111111 11011 111110001 011101010 111101 111001 010010011 01110101 10101001 100101 11010111 01110001 110101 110111 1111000100 11001100 111111 1011111 11011101 11011111 010101 010111 0101110001 11011101 111101 101101 11010001 1011100 0101010 111110 11110110 1100100100 0101110 1101110 110001001 11110111 110101 111101 11111101 01010101 110101 11010 1101001 11010100 110101 10101 11000101 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1488
  • Average number of words per stanza: 282
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; that is repeated.

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

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