This is an analysis of the poem The Pauper Witch of Grafton that begins with:
NOW that they've got it settled whose I be,
I'm going to tell them something they won't like:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXXaeaghiXJhiaJgXcegXikiilgccmhnkjcmbinmofmXcXfckfcXXbgiglkkajpidmaggkagmccdccafbcXphgmmieqmqbjjjddgomp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 108,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010110 01001010111 11010111110 10110011110 01001010110 1101110100 01010101010 1101010101 11011100111 11110110110 10010111011 11011111001 0101010101 11101101010 111101010100 0101011100 1010011111 01011101010 1110110111 0101011100 10010111010 11010001011 10011110010 01001100110 0110110111 11110101010 11010101001 1111010111 11101010101 11110101010 1011000101 0110111111 1110010011 1111111100 1110111101 1101110011 1100110101 1111010001 1101101101 1101110101 1100010111 10110101011 0110010111 0101011101 0111111101 1111110011 1111010111 0111110111 1011111000 0101111111 010100101010 1111110101 0111011011 0111010101 11011101110 1111010101 1111101100 11111101110 1111011101 1111010111 01110111011 1111011001 11000101011 1111010101 1111010101 1001011101 1111111101 110101011 1101010101 0101111101 1101011111 1101110101 11011101010 1101011111 01010100110 1111111101 11010111010 0111110101 0011111101 1111110101 11110011110 1110110100 1111101111 0111110101 0100111101 10010010011 110111001001 111011110110 1111010101 1001111111 10111111011 0101110100 11111101010 1100110101 10011111110 1101110101 1111011110 11001010101 1111011001 1111011111 1101011111 11111111110 11110101010 1001011111 1100101001 01011011010 01111110110 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4642
- Average number of words per stanza: 938
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, to, they, him, in, he, had, made are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, in, to, she are repeated.
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