This is an analysis of the poem Male Fashions For 1799 that begins with:
Crops like hedgehogs, high-crown'd hats,
Whispers like Jew MOSES ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb cdcd bXbc bebe fefX gege hXhiXcici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 101110 1010110 1111110 1010111 101110 1110101 1101010 1111101 111100 101101 1111010 1110101 101110 1010101 1111010 1001111 0101110 1110101 0101110 1111101 0101010 1010101 1101010 1111101 1001010 1110101 0100010 1010101 101010 11111110 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word such is repeated.
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