This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral Ballad Ii: Hope that begins with:
My banks they are furnish'd with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdef efgfgfgggg hihiadadge gegfXfXjfj fhfhigigea eafafaiXiaXgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111001 11001101 11011001 111111001 11011001 11111001 11011001 101111001 101011011 101001001 10111001 10110100001 111001001 11111001 101101011 101001001 111111001 0011110001 101111001 111011001 111001001 001101001 01001111 01011001 001001111 11011001 1010001011 01001011 11011101 111010001 001011111 111101001 111101111 111101101 11111010 101101001 1111011100 111011001 111001111 11001001 111001001 111011001 101001001 111001001 101101001 11101001 101111011 10111001 101011001 01101001 001101001 11101001 11001011 11001011 11111001 01001011 11111001 11101101 101101011 101011011 01101011 101001011 01101001 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, with, i, to, from, her, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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