This is an analysis of the poem The Fansy, Which That I Haue Serued Long that begins with:

The fansy, which that I haue serued long,
That hath alway bene enmy to myne ease, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXabaXaXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101111101 11101010011 100101111 1111010110 1111111001 1111110101 1101111111 10111101110 0101010111 1011111111 1001101101 111000100110 1111110010 011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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