This is an analysis of A Fish Answers by James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Amazing monster! that, for aught I know,
With the first sight of thee didst make our race…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXcXcX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101011111 0011011111 1101111101 1001000101 1111110011 001101101001 1101100011 11010101101 1100100111 1101111011 1101110011 0010110100 10110111001 1111111100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14