This is an analysis of the poem By Day I Might Finger My Fiddle that begins with:
By day I might finger my fiddle
But at night I reserve exclusively...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 1111010100 0010011 11111 011000 110110 0111 010011 11001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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