This is an analysis of the poem Witch Of Our Wilderness that begins with:
I know not why I love your baffling face,
Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddabXdD cefgdXefgD gchedgcheD ijicdijicD cXhddcihdD kjifdkjifD blfcdblfcD aecdXaecdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111001 1100110101 1101011101 10011111001 1101000101 1101011111 1011011101 1001110010 1111011111 1111010101 1011110101 1001011101 1001010101 1111010111 1101010101 11001000101 1101000101 1111111111 0101111111 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111010001 1111010011 1010011101 1100110101 1101000101 1101010101 1111010111 1111010101 1111000111 1001111001 0101010001 11001010101 1101010101 01011010001 1101010111 0111001101 1101111111 1111010101 1111010011 0101000100 1001110101 1001001001 110101110101 0111111011 1001110101 10101010101 0111010111 1111010101 1101010100 0101010101 1111011001 0011010101 0111010101 1101001110 0101001101 1101010101 11111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1111110111 01100010011 1101001101 1100110101 1100110001 1101010111 0101010111 1111010001 1111010101 1101110101 1111111101 110110101 0101011101 0101010101 0100010101 11110100101 1101010111 11010010111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, our, nor, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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