This is an analysis of the poem A Tale Of The Airly Days that begins with:
Oh! tell me a tale of the airly days--
Of the times as they ust to be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaaaa aaaacdcd aeaeXfbX dXdfafaf fXfggaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 00111100 10011110001 0111111 111111111 0001101 111110101 1100101 110100101 0011101 100011101 0010111 10011101 0110101 0110100111 1011101 10011111 111101 110110101 1111111 1111000100 1110101 101011111 10110110 110110111 1010110 101010111 111101 11111111 0110101 010100111 1011111 11110111 10100100 111101111 1101101 11110101 1100111 10101101101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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