This is an analysis of the poem A Call Of The Sidhe that begins with:

TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight’s glory:
Gay are the hills with song: earth’s faery children leave ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcceecXffcdggd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111100001010 110101110101 1110001011101 100110010111010 1101011101110 110111100101 100101010101 1111100101010 1001011011010 1100101100101 110101110101 11010011001010 11110101010 100101011101 110101010111 1001010101010 11111111010010 110111010001 101101010111 1001010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; is repeated.

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  • summary of A Call Of The Sidhe;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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