This is an analysis of the poem On A Fan That Belonged To The Marquise De Pompadour that begins with:
Chicken-skin, delicate, white,
Painted by Carlo Vanloo, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC XXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 1011011 1001001 1011001 1001011 1001011 1111101 0101001 1111101 1001011 10011011 1011001 1011001 1001001 1001101 0101001 1111101 1101101 1001101 1111001 1110101 1011101 1101101 0101001 10 1101001 1001101 11001001 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word things is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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