This is an analysis of the poem The Three Witches that begins with:
All the moon-shed nights are over,
And the days of gray and dun;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab CdCD efef Xbcb ededXCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 1010111 10101110 1011111 11101010 1111101 00101010 1011111 11101010 0011111 111001110 1010101 1010010 1010001 00111010 1110011 10111010 0011101 11101010 0111101 00101010 11101010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, yearning are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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