This is an analysis of the poem Will O' The Wisps that begins with:
Beyond the barley meads and hay,
What was the light that beckoned there?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaX cdccd eXeed fdffd cbccX egeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 11011101 11011111 11100101 11110011 10011101 11011101 11001101 011101101 11110100 01010101 01010101 11110111 01011101 01010101 11100111 11010101 11010101 11000111 11010100 11011101 110010101 11011111 01010111 111101010 11110101 11010101 01110101 10111101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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