This is an analysis of the poem The Fickle One that begins with:
My eyes went away from me
Following a dark girl who went by....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xbcd E afbfXfc E XeghhXcdfXdgggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,1,7,1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 100011111 111011000 10101 11111 001010 100111 01111 10101 1001 1111 101 010101 10001 100111 10101110 01101101 1111110 1111111 11111101 1101110 10101 101010 10101 10101 101010 011 1111 11110 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; my, one, and, all, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, made are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).
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