This is an analysis of the poem Her Broom, Or The Ride Of The Witch that begins with:
My broom
with its tufts of roses...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXXXbXXX DcaDeddXaeXXXXdbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 001010 100101 001010 1001 00110 10100 1010 0011 01110 1001 00110 0101 11 1001 01 11 11111 011 110 11110 101 1111 1111 010 01 1101 1001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, of are repeated.
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