This is an analysis of the poem The Town Witch that begins with:

Crab-Faced, crab-tongued, with deep-set eyes that glared,
Unfriendly and unfriended lived the crone... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaacacdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011111 0101100101 0101000101 11110101001 1111011111 0101010111 0111001111 0101111101 1111010111 1111010011 0101010111 1101011101 1101011111 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of The Town Witch;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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