This is an analysis of the poem West End Fair that begins with:
Dame Charity one day was tired
With nursing of her children three,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbXa cbcccdd efeaX ggXgafffhh aabbiai ddjdj ffgkXkghaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,10,7,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011110 01000101 1110 01111111 010101 111101010 011111011 11011101 011011010 110101 100111 0111 100111110 1110 11011101 11010101 0011 01010101 1111110101 111100101 01110001 1110 11110001 11010111 10011101 01110001 11010101 11010001 1011 11110111 11110101 1100111010 11110 11011101 01110101 10111111 1111010 11010 11001111 110101010 1101101 11011111 110100111 1101010 01010010 010101110 1101010 010101011 1111011 11000101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, her, and 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 so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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