This is an analysis of the poem The Fishing Outfit that begins with:
You may talk of stylish raiment,
You may boast your broadcloth fine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacacXXA dbdbeaeffA gcgcbaXffA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1111101 10111010 1010101 11111111 1010101 10111011 1010 11000 1111100 11101110 1010101 01111010 1111101 11101010 1010001 11111010 1010 1110 1111100 11111110 0010101 00111110 1110101 10101010 0111101 11101010 0110 1110 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word in at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Fishing Outfit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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