Analysis of Fairy-Land
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Dim vales- and shadowy floods-
And cloudy-looking woods,
Whose forms we can't discover
For the tears that drip all over!
Huge moons there wax and wane-
Again- again- again-
Every moment of the night-
Forever changing places-
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces.
About twelve by the moon-dial,
One more filmy than the rest
(A kind which, upon trial,
They have found to be the best)
Comes down- still down- and down,
With its centre on the crown
Of a mountain's eminence,
While its wide circumference
In easy drapery falls
Over hamlets, over halls,
Wherever they may be-
O'er the strange woods- o'er the sea-
Over spirits on the wing-
Over every drowsy thing-
And buries them up quite
In a labyrinth of light-
And then, how deep!- O, deep!
Is the passion of their sleep.
In the morning they arise,
And their moony covering
Is soaring in the skies,
With the tempests as they toss,
Like- almost anything-
Or a yellow Albatross.
They use that moon no more
For the same end as before-
Videlicet, a tent-
Which I think extravagant:
Its atomies, however,
Into a shower dissever,
Of which those butterflies
Of Earth, who seek the skies,
And so come down again,
(Never-contented things!)
Have brought a specimen
Upon their quivering wings.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001 010101 1111010 10111110 111101 010101 10010101 0101010 0111011 10111110 01110110 111101 0110110 1111101 111101 1110101 1010100 111010 0101001 1010101 010111 100111001 1010101 10100101 010111 001011 011111 1010111 0010101 011100 110001 101111 1110 101010 111111 1011101 101 1110100 1110 010101 11110 111101 011101 100101 110100 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,676 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 981 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 221 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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