This is an analysis of the poem The Fairy's Gift that begins with:
The Fays that to my christ'ning came
(For come they did, my nurses taught me),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdede babaafafghghiXia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101 111011011 10111111 110101111 11010001 010111010 11100111 111111110 01010011 111101010 10110101 000011110 01110111 111111111 11111110 111111111 10110111 111101110 11010101 1101001010 11110101 0010011010 111100111 110000010 11001101 110101011 11110011 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; me, they, i, not, him, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Fairy's Gift;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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