This is an analysis of the poem The Fairie's Fair that begins with:

Who’s that dancing on the moonlight air,
Heel tapping, Toe-heel rapping? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaccbXdXddccXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010111 1101110 1011000101 01011010101 101111111 11110111 111010110 101001010 101010101 11101110 101000101 0101000111 101111111 10110111 10101110 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; folk is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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