This is an analysis of the poem The Impecunious Fop that begins with:

See'st thou how gaily my young master goes,
Vaunting himself upon his rising toes;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeefXffffccXXggffhhcdfXiieXbXbbiiffXajjiibbkkXXcdgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011101 1001010101 1101010101 1101011111 1101111101 0111110110 1001011101 11110010100 1101100101 1101010010 1011000101 1011000111 0111001101 11010000101 1111111101 11110101001 1110111101 0111110100 1111110001 110001110101 110001110101 1011111101 1111010101 10110101101 1111110111 110011100 01011010101 0101110100 1101110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111000100 0111110101 1110111000 1011010101 0101111101 1101010101 110011111 0101010001 1101010101 0111011100 1011010101 1111111101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010111 1011000111 1111010101 10110111001 1011100101 011010110 1100111110 1100111100 101110110 1111011101 10101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 446
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, with, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, so, their are repeated.

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