This is an analysis of the poem The Fairy Temple; Or, Oberon's Chapel that begins with:

THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL
DEDICATED TO MR JOHN MERRIFIELD,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bX ccdddd a eeffghiieeffggjeeXggXddaXbbXejXhgffik ffiiXXffeeghffjjikddaXddbXccccbbkkeXbbccceeeedddXbbhheejjffeXgXeeiXeXXcghllXejjaaeXffbbmmeeejeeeebbjjbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,6,1,37,103,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010110010 10000101101 10011 11011111 11101101 01010101 01111111 11011111 10010111 010 011000111 10100101 11010101 010101001 00011111 01000100 11011111 11101111 01010011 10110101 10011111 01010101 10010101 11010101 10110100 01010100 10010111 01011000 111001111 11001101 11001100 10010111 1001010 11110101 11011000 010111010 111101110 111110110 11111110 1011101110 1100111010 111111110 101101101 11011001 11011100 11111111 001100100 11010001 01010111 11010101 10111101 11110011 0101011100 111110101 01010101 01010101 01011101 10010111 01010100 10010101 110010101 10011011 01011100 01001111 10010100 11011111 10010011 111100101 10111110 110100001 10110101 110010101 01011100 01110001 010101001 11010101 11110101 01010111 10111111 100100010 011101010 100111001 11110100 11110111 11010111 10010001 11111111 11110101 11110101 11110100 10110111 11110100 11010101 01110100 01010101 0101100 01011111 11011111 110011010 100100110 01010111 10010101 01010101 11110101 01010111 11010100 11001101 110011100 01011101 01010100 11111111 01010101 110100111 110010100 11010111 11011100 01011110 11110101 10110111 11010100 11010111 11001101 11111100 11010100 11011111 10101101 110111010 110111010 11111111 0111000 100101110 111111110 11010101 11010111 010010101 01011101 01010111 11001111 01000100 11111111 11010101 10110100 11011101 11000101 11110111 10110101 110001001 10010101 110111110 100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 877
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; or, of, saint, they, their, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, their are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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