This is an analysis of the poem The Fool that begins with:
Here is a tale for children and their grannies:
There was a fool, a man who'd had his chances... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccbdebdeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011101110 11010111010 11011101110 1101011110 00111111010 10011101010 11110100010 10011101010 01011101110 00110111010 111101001010 01111111010 01111101110 11010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of is repeated.
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More information about poems by Madison Julius Cawein
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