This is an analysis of the poem Witch Dance that begins with:
Between the windy, swirling fire
And all the stillness of the moon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa CdcdC dcdcd XeXeX fgfgf chchcXdhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 11010001 111111010 10111101 010101010 10010101 01110111 10101010101 11010111 10010101 01011101 01011101 11110111 01010101 01011101 110111000 01010101 10011001 11010101 011111000 11010111 1000100100 11010101 11011011 11010101 11011001 01110011 11011101 01010100 01000101 11110111 01011110 11001101 01011101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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