This is an analysis of the poem The Path Of Faery that begins with:

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When dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcbdbdb X bbXbebeb X ddfdbdbd X ggfgagag a eeXegege a ffefXfXf X cXXcXccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111110111 1010100111 00101010101 1100111 010101101 100111101 0100100101 111010101 1 1110011101 100100001 101011001010010 101111 11001001 1110101001 110010101 110011111 1 10100101111 1101100111 1101011010110 100111 010111 110011111 1010111101 0010101100 1 1011111111 0101011011 11101111011110 1101 011101111 111101101 010111101 0100011111 1 010010111 101010111 11001001010011 100101 010100101 1111101111 1111101111 110010101 1 111111101 110111101 10010010100101 11101 100100100 1111111001 0110110101 10010001 1 1110111111 1101001110 10010010110010 101111 0100100100 1010111011 0101111111 11010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; that, cities, their, houses, and, goblin, elf, you, princess are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, the are repeated.

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  • summary of The Path Of Faery;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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