This is an analysis of the poem Queen Mab In The Village that begins with:

Once I loved a fairy,
Queen Mab it was. Her voice ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcec fghgiXXjifbF djajheheikakflhlXchc ecachXheidadchmXbFbX ieaeegcXmbibcfaf noXomlhlhede gccchdXd mpbphfnf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,20,20,16,12,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 110101 1101010 110101 0111110 011111 0111010 010101 0101011 110101 0101110 110101 0101011 111111 0101010 010101 1111110 010101 1111110 010101 1100010 010111 1111110 111101 1111110 111101 0101010 111101 1111011 110101 1101010 110101 0101101 1111001 1101010 1010101 1111110 010101 1101011 010101 1111010 0101011 01010100 010101 1001110 010110 0101010 010111 1101010 011101 0100110 110101 1111010 110101 1101010 010111 11101110 010101 1101010 1111010 0111011 010101 1111010 110101 1111110 111101 0101010 10001100 0111010 110111 0111011 010101 1110010 010001 1111110 110001 1111110 111111 1101011 111111 1101010 110111 1101010 010111 1101011 111101 1101010 010111 1101011 011111 100010 0010101 1111010 110101 1111010 011101 1101010 010011 1001010 110111 1001010 111101 1101011 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; her, i, and, its, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, i, its, of, and, we, all are repeated.

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