This is an analysis of the poem The Fairies Break Their Dances that begins with:
The fairies break their dances
And leave the printed lawn, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 110101 11010010 010101 0101110 011101 0111010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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