This is an analysis of the poem Witchery Knows! that begins with:
Witchery knows what it means
When the oats and the barley, the wheat and the beans, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababAccdadAeefafAggfafAhhiai AX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001101 101101001101 101001101011 101111001011 111101101001 1001 1001101 101111011001 101101111001 101011001101 11001101001 1001 1001101 101111101011 101011101111 10110101101 101001101001 1001 1001101 101101011011 101111001001 11011101001 111101011011 1001 1001011 001001001001 111101011011 101011101011 101100101001 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, knows, witchery are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, witchery, and are repeated.
The author used the same word witchery at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Witchery Knows!;
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- idea of the verse;
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