This is an analysis of the poem A Strange Pair that begins with:
THE witch, the witch that lives in the wood
Is not very pretty and not very good ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc X dee f f c g XhhXdXaaeeggaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,3,1,1,1,1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111001 01101011100 010110111 01111101 0011110110 1 10101010010 001110011 1001101001 0100111101 1100101111 1111111000 1 1110110101 110110111 11100100101 11111100100101 1111101010 111101001 0111101 101101001 101101011 101101101 10010101 1111101001 10110101110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; her, ', haven't, them, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word haven't is repeated.
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