This is an analysis of the poem The Fortune Teller that begins with:
She sat with fear in her eyes
Contemplating the upturned cup...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcd EaEadfcacd agXcdbbg bhcdaicfccbeghjdgX bdaadicgXbbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,8,18,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 101001001 11110111 111001010 11110100110010 0010 1111101010 1101110110001 1111101010 1101111010001 1111001010 1110101 11001010 000101 10010 0110110 101101 01010 1001111 0101 01010 1001 00111 1000100101 1001001111 0111100 1001 011010 110101100 1010110101 1001 01011 10111 1110011 111111 101011010 001010 110100101 11001 1101000 1101101 010001110 101010111 10101001010 10101001 1010010 111011010 1101011 101111010 11111111 110010100101 11000011 01010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; have, i, to, her, your, who, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, you, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Fortune Teller;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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