This is an analysis of the poem Fern Hill that begins with:
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaaace adcfaaggca faXchafXXaX eibbfejdia hjXafaabh gfgjXagajf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,11,10,9,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110100101 01010111010111 010101010 111111 100010001 1100011011100101 11010111010111 1010110 101000111 11111111100101 01010111010111 001101110 111110 100010001 11110111011001 1011010101111 1 1010110 001000101 10110110011001 1110101001001 1 110101100 110111 110100101 11101010100101 101111101100 10 100011010 100001 11001101101001 00111011010011 100110110 011001 101111101 10110100100101 0011010111010 1 10010110 100101 110001101101011 10011111010111 001110110 111101 110110111 11011111111101 01010101111101 010101110 101101 101100111111 11 10010111011011 001101110 111001 111110011 11001010100101 111111100010001 1111110 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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