This is an analysis of the poem Lost At The Fair that begins with:
LAST night at the Fair did I lose thee, my honey—
I hunted thee south and I hunted thee north;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ACXdC Xeae F edad F agXg ACXgC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,1,4,1,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111110 11011111011 110111111010 11011001011 10110010010010 11101110111 110010110010 110010111 01 010010011010 11101111011 111110010010 11011011011 101100101101100 010110010010 11011010001 111110111110 11111001001 101100101101100 010110111110 11001001001 110110111010 11011001011 10110010010010 11101110111 110110111010 111110010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; thee, i, in, and are repeated.
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