This is an analysis of the poem Fishing that begins with:
Maybe this is fun, sitting in the sun,
With a book and parasol, as my Angler wishes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXXbece XdbdXXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000110001 0011100111010 1110100101 10001010101010 1010111101 10101111111010 1111111110 1110111101010 1010111100 101010111010001 11101101001 10101011111000 10101010011 110011010101010 11101111010111 011111110101010 10111010010101 10101011101111111 1101011110101 110101011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; i, and, ', we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Fishing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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