This is an analysis of the poem The Witch In The Graveyard that begins with:
Scene: A forsaken graveyard, by moonlight. Enter two witches.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a B XaacdefdbabfghdaeafXX hib B J B KielmfcXlf g B J B Kjaegn opoi p B J B KaogkfoeXgolXgaXaXaamenqq B Xffj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,21,3,1,1,1,10,1,1,1,1,6,4,1,1,1,1,25,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101111110110 11 110111010 0100110101 1001101101 1101011011 1101010101 1100010001 0101010101 0101100101 11010010101 0111100001 01001111101 1011110101 1100010101 11000101010 1111010001 010100111 1101010001 0101011101 0111011101 1100110100 1101101101 0110110010 01011011001 001001 11 101111101 101 11 0111010101 110101101111 110010110101 01010111111 1001010111 01110010001 01010101000 11110010101 0111000101 01111101001101100 11 101111101 101 11 01110010001 110110101 01111100001 111101001010 0101010 111 0111010100 11001010001 1001010011 0111011100110 11 101111101 101 11 0111011001 11011000111 01100110001 10111111 1111111011 01111111 11000110001 111110 101100 11011101001 11010101001 1101010101 10010100 1101000111 0101010100 1111010001 010110001010 0111001111 1101110101 01011101111 0111010101 1011010101 10110111011 110110111 11 01100100110 1100010001 11111100100 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; and, of, witch are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shadow is repeated).
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