This is an analysis of the poem The Fan : A Poem. Book I. that begins with:
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,
With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffaa ggbbddbbddddggddddaagg ggeeffbbXbhheeggdd iiccdccbbfggddXhccXXjjddeeddffff dd ccbbdddddX ffaakkkk ddXbhhaaggddddbbdddd bbddddbbdddd ddddeedd Xebbggddaaggffbblljdaadd ddllffXehhbbbbXg cdee bbeebXeeaa jj XellggddggddddjjddddXiijjggbbeebbjjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,22,18,32,2,10,8,20,12,8,24,16,4,10,2,39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 0101010101 1011110101 11011010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1111010101 01010001001 11011100101 1011010101 1101010101 01011101001 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1011010101 11101100101 1011010101 1011010101 0011010101 1101010101 1111010101 11000010001 1011110101 1101001101 10011000101 0101010101 1011110101 11001110101 0111010111 0111110101 1101010101 1101000101 1001010101 10111001001 1111010001 0101011101 1111011101 0101010101 1111111111 11110010001 1001010101 110000101010 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0111010101 0101010101 1101001101 110101001001 11001010101 1101010101 11001010101 1101001101 1101011101 0111010001 01010101101 01001110101 11110111101 1111010001 1101010111 1011000101 1101010101 01011101100 1101111101 1111111001 1100110111 110100101 1111011110 1101001001 01010001001 1011010101 1001010101 1000110111 1101010101 1100110101 1111011101 11001001111 1100011001 0101111101 1110110101 1010010101 0100010101 10101010101 1001010101 10010010101 1011010101 1101010101 11010001010010 1001010111 1101011101 0101010101 11010101010 1101000101 1011110101 1101110101 1001010101 1011110101 110100100101 1111000101 1001111101 01001010101 1011010111 1001010010 11010010001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0111010101 11010010101 1011010101 1011100111 110101111101 1101010101 0100100101 1101110111 1111010101 1101010001 0101001101 0101011001 11010011111 010100100111 1101110101 0011001111 1111010101 1110000101 1101010101 010100100101 1101010101 01001010101 1101010101 0101010101 10110001001 1101011101 1101001001 1001010111 0101010101 0101011111 1111010101 0101010111 1101010101 01001101110 0101010111 1101011101 1101011101 11001111101 1101000101 11110101001 01110100101 1111100101 0101110101 11001101001 1011010101 1001100111 1101101101 1100010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111000101 01001110101 1101010101 0101010101 1001010101 00101010101 1011110001 1111000101 1001100101 01010101010 1101010101 1101110001 110101011 0001011101 0111010101 0101110101 1111001101 1101110101 1101000101 01010100101 10010010111 0011110101 1111011101 0101010101 1111111101 0101110101 1101010101 1011011101 11010101100 1011010101 1111010101 1001100101 1101010101 11010101001 1111111101 110101001110 1101010101 11010101001 1111000101 0011010101 11010100101 1111010101 11010100101 11001010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 001001100101 11010101001 1111000111 01011111010 001010111010 0101010101 11010100101 1111111001 110010100101 1101110101 01001000111 1011010101 1001010101 1101010101 00010101001 11010011101 01001010001 1011000101 1111010101 11010010101 1101010011 1101100101 11010110101 0101100011 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 242
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, her, he, to, his, and, what, with, of, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words say, if, think, hence, when, the, how are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Fan : A Poem. Book I.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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