This is an analysis of the poem Love And Black Magic that begins with:

To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone;
In his grotto the maiden sits alone. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbccXdDE aaeeeccXdDE ffXggeeXddE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100100101 0011010101 110100101 101010101 01010101 11100101 10100101 11100 111100111 01000111 111011 111110101 11011111 10110101 111111101 101110111 110101101 1110101011 111011100 110100111 01000111 111011 011111011 11110101 100101100 1110111001 011111001 1101110010 0111001110 01111100 1011100111 110110111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • 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; i, my are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines crocodile, enough are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word lad at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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