This is an analysis of the poem Holy Fair, The that begins with:

1 Upon a simmer Sunday morn,
2 When Nature's face is fair,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXXXc dcdceXefc agaXXhicc jcjXegeXc bXbhbabXX XakXlhdhc XXXgXmfmc gXgXnXgXc ggXgogoXc klklelelc Xabagljlc pXpXkgkXc jmgmggXgc aaaaXaaac kXkldkdXc gXggXljlc gggXfmdmc bqbqXaiac khkXXgXXc jXjXgXrXc kXkXbXbXc rkXXXgjgc XmXXjmgmc jXjXXdrdc nanaeXeac jXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010111 1110101 11110101 1110101 101011101 111001110 101010101 10101010 11111 11100011001 1010111 111010101 1110101 11110011001 1111110 101110101 11001010 11111 101011101 1010111 111010111 11101101 101111111 11111010 11101101 111110111 11111 1110111101 11111011 10111111 111110110 111110111 1111101 111111101 1010110 10111 110101111 1010111 110010101 1110100 101010101 101110010 111111101 11011010 110010 1111011111 11111111 111110101 111111000 11111111 11111110 111011101 1110110 10111 111010101 11101110 111010110 11101010 1010101001 10111010 1111101001 1111110 11111 111011111 1111110 101011101 11111110 110110101 11101110 111011111 11111010 11111 111110111 1111011 1110111001 1100111 110110101 11111110 111011111 11101010 10111 111001111 11101011 111111111 11101011 1111001011 11101011 111011101 11101010 110011 1110101010 10101010 111010101 11101010 11110101 11111011 101011101 11111111 11111 111110111 11101110 111011101 11101110 101010111 10101110 1111100101 11100010 11101 111011101 11111110 11101101 11101110 111010101 11101110 111010101 10101110 10111 111010101 10101110 101011101 11111110 111011100 11111010 101011101 11101110 11111 101111101 10111010 111010101 10101010 111110111 11111110 1110111001 11111010 11111 111010101 11101010 110011101 11101110 11101101 1110110 110010111 1110110001 11111 111110111 11111010 11111111 11101110 111111111 11101110 111011001 10101010 11111 111110111 11101110 101010101 10111110 111011101 11101010 101011101 10101110 11111 1011101001 10111110 111010110 11101010 11010111101 11101010 11111101 11101000 10111 111011101 11101110 111010101 11100110 101011101 10101110 101111101 1110101100 11111 1011000101 11111010 111011101 11101011 101011111 11111010 111000101 11111010 10111 110110101 1110101 111110001 1110110 111110111 11001110 111111101 11101010 11111 10101110 11111010 111010101 1010111 101100101 11101110 111110101 111011010 11111 110111111 11101110 111110101 11100110 111010110 1111110 111010101 11100010 11101 111001101 1010111 111010111 1110101 111010101 1110111 111111111 1110101 11111 11110110 11101110 111111111 11111010 111111101 11111110 11111101 1110100 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; an', as, some, that, his, it, o' are repeated.

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

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