This is an analysis of the poem Arcades that begins with:
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of
Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, who... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd d efXeghh ijiiXc XkXkccgXiihX hj iiddXXhhcXkkgfhhkkXXaallbbXjhhkkccjXgfXihhgfmmnniiccbbccoo d kkddppgjjfKK d njnjnjXjjjqqKK kX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,7,6,12,2,58,1,12,1,14,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101101001000101000 101100111010001001 01101010010100101 01001 11 111101 11010100 01110110 1010001 0001 01111101 10110111 1101101 11110101 1110101 0100001 1111110 1010101 11100111 01010101 10011101 000101 1010101 0010001 11010100 101010 1000101 10101101 1110111 0100110000 11110010001011 100101 1001101110001 1111010111 0101001111 010111101 011011101 1101010100 1101010001 1101011110 1101011101 1101010101 0011001101 10110010111 1011010001 0100110100 1111111101 1101011101 1111011101 1101011101 1111011101 001111011 0101011101 0101110101 1111110101 0101110101 1001110101 1101010101 110110101010 11010100101 1101111111 1001110101 11010100101 10001011101 1011011101 10111101001 0101110101 1101011100 1111011101 0001010100 1101011001 1101110101 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 0101000100 1110010001 1011010101 10010011111 0101011001 11110100001 0101000101 1101111011 01010011111 0100011111 1101010111 1010010101 110110101001 1111110101 01110101001 11 1011001 1110110 101111 110101 100101 010111 101 1011111 1010101 0100 10101 10100111 11 1110111 11010101 11101101 1110111 11001101 01011111 0010100 1111101 1111101 01010001 11011100 11011110 10101 10100111 111010110101010 0100010111110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines song is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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