This is an analysis of the poem Song of the Witches: "Double, double toil and trouble" that begins with:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccddaa AAee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101110 10111010 0100101 0010111 1011101 1011101 1011111 1011101 101010010 10111110 10101110 10111010 1000011 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word double at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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