This is an analysis of the poem The Witch-Wife that begins with:
The Witch-wife dwells by the Northern Sea
And it's oh but the wind pipes shrill!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab caccX dedde XXaaf fXffX gegge hihhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110101 10110111 0110100111 1010011111 00100111 111011101 1011101 1111010101 1110100111 001010 100100111 10110111 11111101001 10100110111 1110101 110110100 100101110 111001101101 100100111 0110111 1100100111 0111010 11111101 110110101 11111010 001110101 10110111 100100101 1010011111 1011101 1110110101 1011101 110101001 1100100100 0110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Witch-Wife;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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