This is an analysis of the poem The Foggy, Foggy Blue that begins with:
When I was a young man, I loved to write poems
And I called a spade a spade ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcd dcdcddXdeded XfaXXfdbdfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110110 1110101 10101011111 1010110101 1101111 1101101 10101010111 101111111 1111011001 1010011110 11101010110101 010101010 1111011 11110101 111011110 0110101 11001010 110011011 1110111110 0101111111 10111100011 01010101 1011111010 01010100 1110100111 1111011 1111111111 01111001 00110111111 1110111 01010100010101 01111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word true at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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