This is an analysis of the poem What Is Fancy? that begins with:

SISTER.
I am to write three lines, and you... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd abcd aebX aebf aghX aghX afXX afXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 11011111 110101 111111 10 110111011 110111 110011 10 11110111 101111 1101010 10 11111101 11010101 1111011 10 10110101 110001 111111 10 10111111 111101 1101010 10 01101111 1111100 1111110 10 11110100 01010111 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • 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; me is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of What Is Fancy?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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