This is an analysis of the poem A Fancy that begins with:
Hee that his mirth hath loste,
Whose comfort is dismaid,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbc XXXX dbXb eXfX gXXa Xbab hXhX XfXf Xaca ibfb Xbfb iXfX cfaX djXj cXXX fkXX ffgf ajhX bXec hXbf XXfX XiXi ackc Xchc lfaf bmXm fXXX eXfX gaba igig XmXm XXab XlXl hhhh XgXg igfg Xcfc XnXn afbX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 110010 11011101 110110 011101 110101 11110111 111101 100101 010101 000101001 1111010 111101 101111 110101101 110110 11011 111111 11010101 0100101 111111 110001 110011010 1100101 111101 110011 11000101 111111 110100 1100100 100101001 1100110 1101110 111111 11001101 111101 110101 1101101 01010101 110111 110111 110111 11110101 111101 110110110 010101 01010101 110101 110101 111001 11111101 1110101 010111 110101 11000101 11010 010101 1110001 10111111 111101 10101 011001 11110110110 111110 011101 011111 11010001 111001 111101 100111 11111111 111101 011001 110101 11011111 100110 010111 11001000 11111011 1101110 111111 111111 10011111 111111 110110 110100 11101101 110100 110011 111101 1101010 110101 111001 1101011 11010111 1100010 111101 11011 11111001 011101 011111 111101 11111111 111101 011011 111111 11011011 111001 110111 111111 11010111 101011 111111 010010 11000111 110100 110101 111101 11111111 111111 110101 100101 1111011 111001 010010 11101 0101111 1001111 010111 010111 10011011 111111 1101 11011 11000101 010111 110111 110100 1100101010 11100 11001001 110001 010011010 0101001 111101 01011 01011101 111111 101111 011111 11011101 100001 11011 110101 10110101 011011 110101 110101 10011111 110110 11011101 010110 110001111 010111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 206
- 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; whose, of, my, o, in, too, i, thy, that, nor, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, sometimes, in, my, too, thy, nor are repeated.
The author used the same words whose, o, nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of A Fancy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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