This is an analysis of the poem They Buy With An Eye To Looks that begins with:
THE FINE cloth of your love might be a fabric of Egypt,
Something Sinbad, the sailor, took away from robbers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccXbbXXXXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01101110010010 1011010101010 100100010010111 1111110111 10010110101 11101011111100111 11110101001011 110011011101 1010111010 11101011010 1101001101000 11101010101 11101111110 101101111 1101101110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 758
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words something, and are repeated.
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- summary of They Buy With An Eye To Looks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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