This is an analysis of the poem Fairy Revels that begins with:
Pinch him, pinch him, black and blue,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaccXXddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1010111 10101010 110011010 111 1111 1111 11011111 11110100 1011111 11010111 1100101 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, pinch, his are repeated.
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