This is an analysis of the poem The Fairy that begins with:
Said Ann to Matilda, 'I wish that we knew
If what we've been reading of fairies be true.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddggXXgXXXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011111 01101001001 1111010011010 010111110010 11011011011 01001001011 01111111011 111101101011 1110110111010 011010010110 111110110110 111111110010 01101101101 001001001011 1110101011101 11001111011 11111001010 111101001111 01101011001 111111101010 101101111010 101101011010 1010110111010 010010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1143
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, her, ' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines of is repeated).
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- summary of The Fairy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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