This is an analysis of the poem This Is How I Bewitched Him that begins with:
This is how I bewitched him, friend, I rolled over him in our love play!
'No, no!' cried he as he tried to flee, and he cried out for his mother!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbA XXbXa XaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110111111010111 11111110111111010 11111000011 00110111111010111 11010110101 11110110010010100 1000111111 10111101110101 00110111011010111 100100001001 11101101011 00110111111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, him, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word play at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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