This is an analysis of the poem The Fair Little Maiden that begins with:
There is one at the door, Wolfe O'Driscoll,
At the door, who bids you to come!'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX Xbcb XdaX cXeX dXeX aXeX XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011010 101111010 1011110010 101101011 110110010 11010101 111110011 11110101 010011110 01010101 111111010 111101100 1111010110 110111001 0100011010 11001111 111111011 100011011 110100010 110011011 111011010 100111111 010001110 11001111 11111110 010110011 1010011010 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words six, who are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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