This is an analysis of the poem Fairy-Land that begins with:

Dim vales- and shadowy floods-
And cloudy-looking woods,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdadaededccffaagghhddiiahafhfjjddbXaacaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001 110101 1111010 10111110 111111 010101 10010001 0101010 1111011 00101110 01110110 1110101 0110110 1110001 111111 0010101 0010100 101010 0101001 1010101 010110 100111001 1010101 10100101 110011 0010101 111111 0010011 0010101 1110100 010001 0010111 111101 1010101 111111 1011101 100001 1110100 0100110 00010100 011101 011101 111101 100101 110100 0111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1713
  • Average number of words per stanza: 225
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; again, down are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Fairy-Land;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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