This is an analysis of the poem Fame Is A Fickle Food (1659) that begins with:
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaa aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 010101 11010 111 010101 110101 100101 11000101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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