This is an analysis of the poem Winter - The Fourth Pastoral, Or Daphne that begins with:

Lycidas.
Thyrsis, the music of that murm'ring spring,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccdd Xeeffaa XgghhfX XaaggffiXcciicciiggffddiiddggjjiiddddXiiiddggddiiccffXXii Xddddgghh XdXccddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,7,57,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100 10010011001 0111010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101111101 0101010101 1101011101 1101011101 10 0101110101 1101011101 1111011001 110101001 1101011101 1101110101 100 1111110101 1101010001 0101010101 1111010111 1101010111 1011010110 10 11010111001 1111010101 1101010101 1111110101 1011011101 0101100101 1101111101 11011101110 11110100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0011010011 1101010101 1101110011 1001011101 1101010101 0101010101 0111111111 0101110101 1011000101 0101011101 1101110011 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110011 0101010101 0101000101 101001011101 1101110011 1101011101 1100110111 1101110101 1101010001 1101110110 0101011101 1101110101 1101110011 0101010101 11010101001 01001010111 0110000101 0101110101 10110110001 0111110101 1011110111 1111010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101111101 1111010001 1011011001 0111011101 1011011111 100 1111011101 1101110001 0111010101 1101110101 0111010111 0101011101 1111111101 1111011111 10 11010110001 0101010101 1101110101 1101111101 0111110111 0111010111 0111111101 1011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 697
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 98
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, thy, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, adieu are repeated.

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