This is an analysis of the poem Fie, Pleasure, Fie! that begins with:
1 Fie pleasure, fie! thou cloyest me with delight,
2 Thou fill'st my mouth with sweetmeats overmuch;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb cdcdee fafXcc gegebb hihijj khkhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101001 11111010100 11101011111 11111111111 11111110011 11101110100 10101010101 101010101110 10111010101 111011101110 11101110101 11101111101 10101010101 111010110001 1011110001 11111010111 11111010101 11101111111 101011111010 10111010101 100011101010 111010001001 10101110101 11111110101 10101111110 111111100111 11100110111 10101111101 11111100111 11111110101 11101111101 11111110111 11111111101 10101110101 11110010011 11101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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, of, how, my, lo, to are repeated.
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- summary of Fie, Pleasure, Fie!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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