This is an analysis of On A Fan That Belonged To The Marquise De Pompadour by Henry Austin Dobson.

Chicken-skin, delicate, white,
Painted by Carlo Vanloo,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabXcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC XXbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,6,
  • Metre: 1011001 1011011 1001001 1011001 1001011 1001011 1111101 0101001 1111101 1001011 10011011 1011001 1011001 1001001 1001101 0101001 1111101 1101101 1001101 1111001 1110101 1011101 1101101 0101001 10 1101001 1001101 11001001 0101001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

things