This is an analysis of the poem Fancies Are But Streams that begins with:
Fancies are but streams
Of vain pleasure:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdeedff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 0110 11111 1110 101101 101101 101110 111 111 101010 11011110 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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