This is an analysis of the poem A Ditty that begins with:
In praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds
SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXcccXbc dXdeXXfXe dadXeXffX ccXXbXddb XXbXXXXXX cXcfXgXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010010 111101011 11001 1001010101 11001 01010100101 01010110001 1110 11101 01001100 1111101001 1101 0100100101 11101 0111000110 0101100101 1101 110 11110111 11010110001 11101 1100010101 11100 10111101111 1101000101 110011 11101 10010001 1110010101 10100 110101101 11100 11011010110 1110110010 11001 11011 11001010 11001110100 11000 110001101 101000 1101010000 1101101110 111 10100 11001110 1110101111 11010 111110101 1101 1111101101 1101011101 101110 1100110 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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