This is an analysis of the poem There Are Faeries that begins with:

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There are faeries, bright of eye,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abXbabXccbaXX X bbbd eebdffXXXXggaXaXX X dddcfXc fchiheiee X XXaajjaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,1,4,17,1,7,9,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110101 10100101 10110101 1110101 1100111 1010111 1110100 10010101 0010101 11101 0111111 1110100 1110 1 1110111 1110101 1011101 00111010 1011101 10111001 1010101 00111010 1010101 1111111 0111100 0110100 1000100 0011101 10001101 1010101 1011101 10101 1111111 1110100 1110 1 1110111 0011111 1011101 00101001 0010111 1110100 1111101 1010111 1010001 0010111 1111101 1010111 0110111 10110101 1011101 1010101 1 1110100 100 1011001 101 1110100 1010100 101 1110100 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, faeries, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines verily, tree are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase verily connects the lines.

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  • summary of There Are Faeries;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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