This is an analysis of the poem The Fairy Harpers that begins with:
As I walked the heights of Meelin on a tranquil autumn day,
The fairy host came stealing o'er the distant moorland gray....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccddc eeXXe ffbbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101010101 010111010010111 1111110 10101010 101010101010101 11001101110101 11000101110101 110001 1011111 11110100010101 010100101011101 01011100011111 10101010 10101010 01110100111101 111101011010101 11010111111111 11111010 0101110 11010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Fairy Harpers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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