This is an analysis of the poem The Fairies' Child that begins with:

She lived beside the edge of a sweep of heather
In a lone cot by the rill,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededXbfb Xgfgededabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001010 0011101 1011001111010 101111 01111001001100 0101101 10111111010010 1011101 111010111010 11111 1111110101110 111101 100101111010 100101 1010010101010 101001 11111011101 110101 1110111101010 00100101 1010011101010 111101 111011011010 001101 110101111010 101101 1110100111010 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Fairies' Child;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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