This is an analysis of the poem Averted Malefice that begins with:
Where mandrakes, crying from the moonless fen,
Told how a witch, with eyes of owl or bat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa XcdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001000101 1101010111 1111100001 1101010111 1001000101 0101010101 0101011110 1011010101 0101101101 01001011111 1110011101 01010101000 1111010111 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Averted Malefice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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