This is an analysis of the poem The Fairy Thorn that begins with:
“GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel’
For your father’s on the hill, and your mother is asleep; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef ghgh ihih gigi jjXj hXhX XdXd cfcf Xccc hhhh cjcj jjjj cgcgXhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010010101 11101011110001 11010111110101 010101101 1101011110101 110101010001 1101011010101 01000111 1110101000101 0101010011101 0101010010111 10100101 110101110111 0101011111101 111010101010101 01010111 011101010111 110001110101 01010101011111 01010101 010101110001 0111010010101 10101010110111 11010110 1100010001001 1101110010001 1100010110101 1100101 110111111001 10101110010101 11010101100111 001001101 1001011010101 10010101011101 01001010111101 1111010101 1101010110111 1111011110111 110101110101 111010111 1111010110101 1111010010101 11010110010101 1010001101 111101111101 11101000101 1111101110001 11111101 1111010010101 1010101010101 1101010110101 111110101 1101110010101 1111010110001 11011101111001 11100111 110101110101 01001010110101 1101010010101 01011001 110101110111 1111010010101 110111010111 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, her, and, their, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Fairy Thorn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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