This is an analysis of the poem Fashions that begins with:
Fashion on fashion on fashion,
(With only the truth growing old!)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababC aded afffC XgXg hdhdC dhbh XiXiC ejej XbXbC XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 01001101 110110010 11101001 11 1110111010 11101101 111010010 01011001 1110011110 01011101 010110110 01100001 11 11001011 11011001 110111010 01100001 111110010 11101001 110111110 01111011 11 010011011 01011001 1010001010 11011011 0110010000 11001001 01100010010 11001001 11 1010010110 01011001 1010011110 11001111 110011011 11001111 111111011 11001101 11 1110011111 001001011 111011011 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fashion, rose, item are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words they, here's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word buy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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