This is an analysis of the poem The Lanawn Shee that begins with:

Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Winged heavily across the clover,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gXhb hidi hbib jXXk jibi ieie Xlhl heme jXfm ieie ibab ifbf cnhn fbib ncdc nhhh acjc mici eefX hbgb Xkfk gXdi mafa fail hiXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 110001010 11010101 101101110 01111001 100101010 11010101 110101010 100111111 1010111010 111111111 11111111010 11110111 010111010 11000111 111101010 11100101 0101010010 11110100 100111010 11111101 100101111 10010111 110101010 11000111 010101010 111101010 1101101010 11011001 110111010 10010101 100101010 110111011 110101010 10010101 110101110 11010111 100111110 010101111 111101010 01010101 100111010 110101011 0101010010 11010101 110001110 100010010 1001001010 11010101 1101101110 11010101 011101010 11010001 111111010 110101010 1001001010 11011101 111101010 01001111 010111010 11111111 111111110 11111101 110101010 110110101 1111110111 11010101 110101101 111011101 110111110 11010111 110101110 110111001 111001011 11010011 011101011 111011111 011111010 01010001 110111010 111110011 100111010 11010001 011111110 11110101 110111010 11001101 1111110110 111101100 010111010 11010101 110101010 10110111 110101010 01100011 101111011 11110101 010101011 110100101 110111111 01010101 0101010011 110111001 111111010 11111111 111101010 110100101 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, her, in, you, of, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words and, ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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