This is an analysis of the poem A Faery Song that begins with:

i{Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania,}
i{in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.}... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aBCBBdXdBeXeaBCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100101010110 1110110010 1111111 111 10001000 0101 101101001 1011 10111010001 10101 101101001 1101 01011010110 1101 1111111 111 10001000 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; old is repeated.

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

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