This is an analysis of the poem The Elfin Artist that begins with:
In a glade of an elfin forest
When Sussex was Eden-new, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb deXeae XfffXf cgXgcg chfhXh fbXbeb Xgdggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011010 1101101 11111010 1110101 010010011 1101001 101001111 1100111 101001010 0110111 101010010 10101111 1110010010 1100111 101001110 1110101 111010011 011101 101111010 0111011 110010011 1101111 111001110 0100111 111001110 0111111 101011001 10111001 101110011 10100101 101111111 1100111 111010010 1100111 1111100100 1001101 010110110 11001001 11101110 1111111 110110010 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; his, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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