This is an analysis of the poem Fancy Dress that begins with:

Some Brave, awake in you to-night,
Knocked at your heart: an eagle’s flight ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababbccaabb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010101 11111101 10010111 111100101 01111101 01110011 10110111 11000101 10011111 11010111 100101001 010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

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