This is an analysis of the poem Witchcraft Has Not A Pedigree that begins with:
Witchcraft has not a pedigree,
‘Tis early as our breath,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 110111 11010101 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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