This is an analysis of the poem Inscription In A Beautiful Retreat Called Fairy Bower that begins with:
Airy spirits, you who love
Cooling bower, or shady grove;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggff bbhh hhii jjXh kkhh ffll cckk ggii llff mmii ffeeXbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 10101101 1110111 1011101 10010101 0011100 1010101 0010101 0110101 0110111 1011101 10000101 11101001 10111001 1011101 1010101 1110101 10101001 1010101 101001001 1010101 1000101 1110101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1011110 1001101 11101010 10110010 1010011 1011101 1010101 0111101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1100101 10101010 11101010 10100101 10100101 1010101 1011101 1110001 1100101 1110101 1010111 11101010 10101110 11100101 01000100 1110101 1110101 1111101 01000100 11101001 10011001 1110111 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; where, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, where, you are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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