This is an analysis of the poem In The Height Of Fashion that begins with:
SO at last a toll they’ll levy
For the passing fool who sings—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacaC dedeXcbC fefebcbC gggggcgC hehedcXC hihijcjC klklbcbC XmXcncnc ohohkckc babXdmdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1010111 10111110 0011101 11111110 1010111 11101010 1110001 10101111 1010111 11101011 1111101 10101010 1111101 01101110 1110001 11101110 1110101 11111010 1110101 11101110 1111111 10111010 1110001 11100010 0010001 11101110 1110101 11111110 1010101 11111110 1110001 11101110 1110101 11101110 1011101 10101111 1011101 10011110 1110001 11101010 1110101 11101110 0011101 111001011 1001101 11101101 1110001 10101010 1011111 10101010 011001 10101110 1010101 10111010 1110001 11111010 1000101 10111010 1110101 11111010 1011111 10101110 1110001 11101110 1011111 10001110 1000101 10111110 1101101 11101110 1110001 11110110 1000100 10101110 1100011 11101010 1010101 00111110 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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; us, we, and, our, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nought, we, and are repeated.
The author used the same words once, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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