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

OVER hill, over dale,
   Thorough bush, thorough brier, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccddeeXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 101101 1011010 101101 1011010 1110101 1010101 1110101 11010101 110101000 1111111 10101010 11101110 11111111 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more 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; over, thorough are repeated.

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  • summary of Fairy Land I;
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  • history of its creation;
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