This is an analysis of the poem The White Witch that begins with:
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcbAB XXbcdc XaXaea dcdcfc ededed Xaeada agdgbg dfbfcf cbdbebXABabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 01111101 11110111 11010101 10011001 10011001 01111111 11010110 110010111 11011101 11110101 01010101 01110101 01111101 01110101 11010111 11010111 01010001 11111101 01011101 100010010 01010101 01010101 11000101 11011101 11011101 11010101 01111101 01100101 01000101 11110111 11111001 11110111 11011111 01111101 11100101 11111111 11010101 01010011 101010001 10111111 01110011 11111111 11110111 10110111 01000111 11110001 11111101 1101101 01010101 01010111 01010101 01010101 11010101 11011111 01111101 11010101 11010101 10011001 10011001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, her, like, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, the, and are repeated.
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