This is an analysis of the poem The Fall Fair that begins with:

They are makin preparations for the big fall fair,
And the farmer and his family are loaded up with care ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AaX ab aX accA ddeedd c ca AaffX dd XXa Aac cbb dXdA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,4,6,1,2,5,2,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110101010111 101010100110101 111010101011 1 1011101011011 1 1111101011111 1001 111111 0110001 11110101010111 11101010101001 11101010010011 0101010101011 10101010001001 10111100010101 10101010001011 010001 010101 0110101010111 1110101010111 101010100010001 11010101110111 11010101010101 101010111111 111 10100011010001 11101110 111101110 11110101010111 1110101010111 00110010110101 0100011010101 101110100010100 11101011010001 0100011010101 0111010 0100110 11110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, in are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fair is repeated).

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