This is an analysis of the poem A Morning Fancy that begins with:

I drifted (or I seemed to) in a boat
Upon the surface of a shoreless sea... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbacacdd efeffeaeacc dadaaghghii bdbddjfjfaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110001 01010001001 1011110101 1100110101 11011100100 1101010101 0011010101 1111010111 1101010001 101110101010 11010101010 1101110111 0101010101 1011010101 1000111101 1101010101 1111010111 1100010101 0110011111 0101111101 01010101010 111101001010 0101010011 01010100111 1100110101 11001010111 0101110101 1011010101 11110110001 0101110101 11001010101 11111101110 11010101010 0101001101 1101010111 11010110101 0101110101 1011010101 1111010101 1110010111 11001011001 1111110001 1101011010 11010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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