This is an analysis of the poem Song- I'D Be A Fairy King that begins with:

Oh, I'd be a Fairy King,
With my vassals brave and bold;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCCBDceecABCCB fffffDXeeXABCCB XgffgbahhaABCCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 0110111 1111 10111 0110111 1111010101 1010101 1111 00101 1111101 100101 0110111 1111 10111 0110111 1110111 0011101 0101 11011 1111101 1111010101 1011101 0101 10101 001001010 100101 0110111 1111 10111 0110111 1100101 1110101 1101 1111 1110101 1101010101 1010101 1111 101001 00100101 100101 0110111 1111 10111 0110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; merry is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word gold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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