This is an analysis of the poem A Fable that begins with:

SILENT and sunny was the way
Where Youth and I danced on together: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcabAdd abeecabAdd abaaddbAdX abffcabAdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 111111010 1101100010 11111101 10011100 11010111 110001010 101101 11111111 11110101 01011101 100101010 11111100 11101101 1001100 11010111 110011010 101101 11111101 11011101 110101001 0111110110 110101001 1111011 110101001 10011111 111101010 101101 1101111001 10110111 11111111 1110111010 11000101 11111101 1001100 11010111 111111010 101101 1101101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Fable;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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