This is an analysis of the poem The Maids Of Elfin-Mere that begins with:
When the spinning-room was here
Came Three Damsels, clothed in white,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXaccDD aeeffaggDD ahhffaiiDD aaajjaggDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1110101 01101001 11111110 10001010 1010101 100101011 1010101 0011001 1011110111 1110111 110111001 1010101 100011010 10110110 1110101 1110101 1011101 0011001 1011110111 1110111 1110101 1010101 10101010 101100110 1110101 1010101 1111101 0011001 1011110111 1111101 1100101 1111101 00101110 10101110 1110101 01010111 01111101 0011001 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word blow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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