This is an analysis of the poem Eclogue Of The Liberal And The Poet that begins with:

LIBERAL
In that place, shepherd, all the men are dead....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cdbd ab cebc affe ccgh aghii cc ab cc aj cf aj cj ak cl ak cjel akj clj ajl cjj Xhbkkk acXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,4,4,4,5,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,3,3,3,3,6,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 0111010111 10 111010111 101010101 0111011 100 111010111 10 111001110100 010111001 1100111101 100 1011001001 0111010001 11000100 10 110101101 10001110110 1101011001 100 1111111010 010101101 111110101 11110101 10 110111001 100 110010 10 10110 100 101101001010 10 1101111100 100 1111011111 10 1110111101 100 11011111111 10 010011101010 100 111000111 10 001001111 0100100110 10 100 10010110100 1 10 01111110 0111111101 100 011101111101 1111100111110 10 10011111001 100111101 1 10101111 01111001 11101011 10111001101 1010011001 100 101111001 10 1110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, name, know, you, i, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words alas, afterwards, we are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word about at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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