This is an analysis of the poem Dawlish Fair that begins with:
Over the hill and over the dale,
And over the bourn to Dawlish--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX abaX cbcX dXdb dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001 11001010 1101110101 11011110 1001011101 111010110 1110101001 1111011000 111010111010 111011010 1011011010110 111011000 11101111101 111111110 1110111111 11101010 111010101 111010011 1111100101 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; over, and, o, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word here's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word debonairly at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dawlish Fair;
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