Analysis of Tale of the little fairy



I found a little fairy
someone had discarded on the ground.
I picked her up
put her in my pocket.
Never again will she be alone.
She can now sit on my desk
as she has found a new home.
If I have, any wishes
I hope she will grant them to me.
This little fairy I found
someone had discarded on the ground
Given me hundreds of years ago,
My name has a meaning you shall know:
It means, in the speech of the bygone folk,
"Smoke of the Earth" - a soft green smoke!

A wonderful plant to them I seemed;
Strange indeed were the dreams they dreamed,
Partly fancy and partly true,
About "Fumiter" and the way it grew.

Where men have ploughed
or have dug the ground,
Still, with my rosy flowers, I'm found;
Known and prized by the bygone folk
As "Smoke of the Earth" -
a soft green smoke!
See the rose-berried Spindle
All to sunset colours turning,
Till the thicket seems to knindle,
Just as thugh the trees were burning.
While my berries split and show
Orange-coloured seeds aglow.
One by one my leaves must fall;
Soon the wind will take them all.
Soon must fairies shut their eyes
For the Winter's hushabies;
But, before the autumn goes,
Spindle turns to flame and rose!
the little fairy was a timid creature
living in her world of sunbeams and moon lit glares
children used to notice the way the would shift & fly
out of a frenzy  of beautiful cadence there lies an opened door


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101010 11010101 1101 100110 100111101 1111111 1111011 1111010 11111111 1101011 11010101 101101101 111010111 110011011 11010111 010011111 10100111 10100101 01100111 1111 11101 111101011 1011011 11101 0111 101110 111110 1010111 11101010 1110101 1010101 1111111 1011111 1110111 10101 1010101 1011101 01010101010 10001110111 101110010111 11010110010111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,388
Words 266
Sentences 13
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 15, 4, 22
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 366
Words per stanza (avg) 87
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Submitted by hitalot on December 02, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:19 min read
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Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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