This is an analysis of the poem The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman that begins with:
I'll sing a little ditty, which
I trust you'll not think flat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaaba XX cdedfdfd XbXXadXd XcXcfccc fgbgXfef cababhgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111111 001110100 111100 11001101 000101 11111010 010101 101110100 100011 01010111 110011 11111101 1000101 1011110 111101 11101010 111101 10101010 010101 11111100 0101000 1111110 000111 110001100 011001 11101010 010111 11011111 011101 1101111 111011 11111101 110101 11010101 1101001 01011111 011111 11100100 011101 01010100 010001 11110101 110101 11000011 110011 01101010 011111 11110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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