This is an analysis of A Fair Exchange by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

Would you be much impressed, my dear,
Now you've adopted shorts,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccb dcdccXc efefggf acachhX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 11010111 110101 01111111 010101 01011111 11111101 010111 11110101 1101011 00010101 110111 11010101 010111010 010111 11110101 010101 11110111 111101 01011011 11001111 010101 10010111 100101 11110111 011001 11000101 01110111 010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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