This is an analysis of the poem She's All My Fancy Painted Him that begins with:
She's all my fancy painted him
(I make no idle boast); ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XbXb efef fdfd gdgc ebebXbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 111101 01111101 111101 11111000 111101 10010100 110101 11111101 011101 111010001 110001 11111111 110001 01110101 110101 11010111 111111 11010101 110101 01111100 010001 11010101 010110 01011110 011101 11001101 110110 11111101 101100 01010101 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; they, gave, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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