This is an analysis of the poem The Black Art that begins with:
A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcef aXbcdeXX cbbfcXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 110111 1010110110 10011010110 110001001 1111101 0100010001 111111 0111111 111100 100101100110 100110011100 1101001 011001101 0100010001 111111 101001 101011111 111101010 11111110 11110100010 11110 0101001 10111111110 011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Black Art;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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