This is an analysis of the poem Spring - The First Pastoral ; Or Damon that begins with:
First in these fields I try the sylvan strains,
Nor blush to sport on Windsor's blissful plains:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeddaaaaaaddfX gccbbdd Xhhiiaa gXaddcc hbbffaaff gaaee Xhhff ghhaa Xiiff gaaff XXXbb gdddd Xjjee gccdd Xaaaa gaahh hcckkXXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,7,7,7,9,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110101 1101110101 11110011001 11110100101 11011100101 1101110101 1111111011 0101000111 11000110111 0101100011 1111010101 1011011101 1101000101 0111000101 1101010111 111100100111 1101110101 11111100101 110010011101 1101110101 0111010101 1101110110 10 1101110101 0101010101 1111110101 110010001001 1111111111 1101010101 10 1111010101 1111010101 1011011101 1101110101 1111110101 1001010101 10 11011101010 1101010101 1101000101 01001000101 11011101001 1111010101 10 1111110101 11110101001 1101110101 0101110101 0111001101 0101110101 0111111101 1101110101 10 11110011101 11110100101 1111110101 1101100101 10 1101010001 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 10 01010010101 1111111101 1011100101 11110010111 10 10101111001 1111010101 1101010101 1111111101 10 0101011001 0101010101 0101010101 1011010101 10 1101010101 1101110101 01010101001 0101010101 10 1101011111 0111010101 01001110101 1101010111 10 00101010111 1101110101 1101110001 1111111101 10 10011011111 1111111101 10110011111 11001010101 10 1101011101 0101110111 1110110101 11010011001 10 1111011101 01001010101 1101011001 110010100101 10 1001110101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110111 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, as, when, now, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and, now, blest are repeated.
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