This is an analysis of the poem Witchery that begins with:
She walks the woods, when evening falls,
With spirits of the winds and leaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab aaaa cdcd eaea bfbf fgfg hhhh caca ifif jbjb kaXa gggg dkdk bfbf fafa glglXakak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01000111 10010111 010010101 11010101 11110101 10011001 11110111 11010111 11010101 10010111 10011001 01010101 11011101 110101101 11010101 11011101 11011111 11010101 11010101 11011001 110000111 10010001 11010101 01010111 11101101 11010101 11011001 10011111 11011101 11011111 01110111 11010111 11010101 11010101 010010101 11011001 110010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 111100101 110011100 11000001 11011100 010000101 11011100 11110101 11010101 10011101 01011101 10010101 11010101 01010101 10010101 11110101 110101001 01111101 10010111 01110101 11011111 01011111 10010111 01110111 00111100 11001101 11010101 10110011 110100111 01011111 11011101 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; she, eyes, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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