This is an analysis of the poem Fairy Sketch that begins with:

SCENE--NETLEY ABBEY.
There was a morrice on the moonlight plain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababbbccdD aeaeffbbggdD bddbEEaA hfhfddEEaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,12,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 1101010111 1101000101 1111101001 0101010101 0101010001 0101000101 1111101 1110101 10101001 1111101 1011110001 1101010001 1011010111 11010110111 110010110001 0101110100101 1100101 0111001101 00110111 1100111 10100101 1111101 1010101 11010101 1010111 0010001 0010001 1011101 1110101 00100111 1111101 1111101 10110001 0010100 0011001 0011111 0010001 1011101 11110101 00100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same words me, flown at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Fairy Sketch;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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