This is an analysis of the poem The White Witch that begins with:
Heaven help your home to-night,
MacCormac; for I know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb ccbc defe ceee ggcg hgeg acfc igjg chih cgkg jclc maha hcac ngig cgcg amXm dkck aeae kcbc mkak jifi noao cbcb cdXd acac mlcl jgigXabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 100111 01110011 110111 11010101 110101 1101111 110111 11110111 110111 11010101 110101 11010111 111111 11110111 110101 01011111 010111 1011111 110101 11010001 010111 01010111 110111 11011101 010101 11010101 010101 11110101 010101 11010101 1110101 11110111 010101 11110101 011101 11001111 100101 11010101 110101 0001111 01111 11111001 110111 11000111 111111 10010101 110001 11001101 11111 11110101 111111 11110100 010101 11101111 111101 1111111 111101 11110101 110111 11000101 110001 10110111 010101 11111111 111101 10010111 110111 01011100 111111 11110011 111111 11101111 101101 1101101 110111 11010111 010111 01010111 01101 11110011 011001 11010001 110101 110101010 111111 11010101 111101 01000111 110101 10110111 010111 01000111 111111 11010101 011101 01000111 111111 11010101 011101 11110101 111101 11110101 010101 11010100 010101 11110111 111111 11011101 110111 11110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; your, her, i, by, you, she, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, come, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The White Witch;
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