This is an analysis of the poem With The Flying Upon Her Broom that begins with:

If she did have an honest bone in her body,
It was highly camouflaged....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbX caddXc bXeceff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111010010 0110101 111101 1111110101 110111001010 1001001001 11111111110 0101001111100 1111100101 110001 1101010101 111010111 10110010010 11101100101 010100100101 111111010101 1011010110 10110010101 001010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.

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  • summary of With The Flying Upon Her Broom;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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