This is an analysis of the poem The Witch's Life that begins with:
When I was a child
there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedfgh XheiejgXeejceabgikjhkfllXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1111100110111101 1111001010 10 00101010 1011110010 1111011 11111 1011010 1100011 1100110100 11111010 10111110 111010011 11100101 1101 1011011 1011 1110011 1011010010 10001110 0110100 10110110 101110011 0101 101111110 01010 101111 0010010 11100110100 1000101 10001001 010101 1101 10010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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- summary of The Witch's Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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