This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of Angling that begins with:

Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,
Anxious sighs, untimely tears, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd debbdeff ggaahhbb bbiijjff bbdehhkk hhiibbaa debbaall
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011101 1010101 1101 101101 1101011101 1101010100 111100 1101010 10110111 11010100 1011 110101 101100101101 0101011100 110011 11111101 0110011 11111101 11110 1100110 1101110111 11001110101 11010111 100101111 11010111 10111111 1111 010101 11011101010 11110110010 111101 11010101 1111001 01001101 0100 010100 0101110111 0101110101 110101 01110111 11010101 11101011 1111 110101 1001110101 1101011111 111101 11010101 11011110 01011100 1110 010111 011111110 11110111010 1111001 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; fly, these are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fly is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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