Analysis of My Fancy
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
I painted her a gushing thing,
With years about a score;
I little thought to find they were
A least a dozen more;
My fancy gave her eyes of blue,
A curly auburn head:
I came to find the blue a green,
The auburn turned to red.
She boxed my ears this morning,
They tingled very much;
I own that I could wish her
A somewhat lighter touch;
And if you ask me how
Her charms might be improved,
I would not have them added to,
But just a few removed!
She has the bear's ethereal grace,
The bland hyaena's laugh,
The footstep of the elephant,
The neck of a giraffe;
I love her still, believe me,
Though my heart its passion hides;
"She's all my fancy painted her,"
But oh! how much besides!
Scheme | ABCBDEXE AFCFXGDG XHXHXICI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11000101 110101 11011110 010101 11010111 010101 11110101 010111 1111110 11101 1111110 011101 011111 011101 11111101 110101 110101001 0111 0110100 011001 1101011 1111101 11110100 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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