This is an analysis of the poem The Old Witch In The Copse that begins with:
I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch,
There's many a one knows that--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaacacdXcXXedefgbgfffaedXdXhfhbcXcXiai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110111 1100111 0111011011 010011 01110101 110111 101010111 101111 11010101 0101110 1011011011 101111110 111100101 110111 011110111 1010111 1100111 10111 11001101001 0100111 0100011001 100111101 1101 110101 11010101 10101 11011111 110001 010010101 110101 1011101 110101 11010111 111111 01011101 1010101 10011111 1101010 1110111 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1294
- Average number of words per stanza: 245
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, shall are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines these is repeated).
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