This is an analysis of the poem Alison Gross that begins with:
O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tow'r,
The ugliest witch in the north countrie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XaBX cdBX EabX fgXX XaBX EahX cdXd gggg Xaca Xaha Xafa gaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100111011 010010011 1101111101 1101101101 11011111011 1111110101 1110011011 11011110110 11010100110 010101101 1110011011 010101010 10101101 11101110 1100011011 11110101100 1110100101 11010101 111001111 01011110 1110100011 110101101 1110011011 010110110 10101101 11101110 1110111101 110111110 11011101 111110111 11110110110 1111101111 1111100101 111011111 1101111101 111110101 111001101 1101100101 111101001 110011101 010101101 01110101 110110101 11101100101 11011111010 101011101 0110110101 110111101 111100111 11101111001 11101011101 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; she, my, i, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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