This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral Dialogue - Ii that begins with:
Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira.
Melibæus. Welcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb cdee ffeegg XXaa Xehhii bbX j Xccaa jjcd ee e dXgkkllcc aammaannaa cdaaaammXX eeeXffccaXXg mmff Xajjccjj aacdbboojj kkeeeennaaaajjkkeeaa aa eeggeemmll iihhaakkeeaa ppcdkXccXeeennkkgg nncc jjff jjii oobb cchhXaaa aa ggg gbbXc kkjj aaaa bbbbkk n nf fo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,4,6,3,1,5,4,2,1,9,10,10,12,4,8,10,20,2,10,12,18,4,4,4,4,8,2,3,5,4,4,6,1,2,9,1,5,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010010010001100 1001011110001 1001110101 1111010101 0111110011 1011001101100 0101001100 0101111001 1101111101 1001100111001 0111011111 1101110101 1011111101 0101011101 11110010100 1001101011111 11001011010 01001110111 1110011011 101101010010 0111111101 0111110101 0111101101 11110101010 11010111010 101001111101 1111011011 1001111000 1010010100011 10 0101110101 0110110101 1111010101 0111011101 1001010111 010011101 0101010100 1111010100 101011111001 1111101111 11001110101 10 1111111110 10011100101 1101010101 1100110110 1111011101 1101111101 1101010101 0001001101 11010000101 1101011101 0111110111 1111001111 0101110001 1101110111 1100011101 1111111101 1101010101 1111011001 1111110100 1100010100 1111010111 1111011101 0101011101 10111100111 0101111111 1011110101 1101011010 0111110010 11010111001 1101110011 0110111111 0110110010 1111110111 1011100101 01110110100 0101100001 0101110101 1001010111 1011010110 1101010101 11001010101 10101110101 0111011101 11010011100 0101001110 0111010101 101011101 1101010101 1111110101 00100111001 011010111 1100010111 0101111111 1000010101 0110010100 0101110100 0101110101 1101011101 1101110001 0101011111 1111010101 0101011101 11110110000 0101010101 0111001001 0101010101 101001101 01110100111 1111010001 0101011111 1101110101 1101111101 1111010111 1111010001 1111101101 1001101001 1001111101 1111100101 1101011111 0100011001 1101111111 1101010101 111101101 1111100101 010101101 1111010101 1111010101 1101100001 0101110110 1101011001 1111011111 0100010101 1011010111 1001010011 01011101110 11110011010 01110011101 1111011111 1111100111 0101011001 1101010101 1111010101 1001010111 1111010101 1011000011 1101110101 01010010101 11010010101 1101001010 1001001100 1101010101 0111111010 1100011101 0110010101 0111100111 1001011001 0101010111 0111110111 1101101101 1010010001 0101010100 1101010101 1101111111 1001001110 1111011111 1011010101 1101001101 1101000101 1111111101 1001011101 0101100101 0101011101 1011110001 0101000101 01011101010 01111101010 111011010101 1101010101 1010010111 1111001101 101111011101 1101111101 1101011111 0101011101 1101011110 0111110101 1101011111 1001110001 11101011111 1111110111 1101010111 0110010111 1111110101 101010011101 1101100101 0101011011 1111110010 1011110101 101000010000 1111110101 1111111001 1101110001 101101100011 1011010001 1111011001 1101110101 1001111001 1101010001 011100111001 011001101 0100010101 1101110101 110101010101 101011001111 1100011101 101101010111 11110101001 0101110101 1101110101 0111111101 1111011101 0101010111 1011100101 0101011001 101101111001 101110010111 11011011101 0101010101 11010101010 1111101101 100101111101 10111110111 101101111111 1101111101 101111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 237
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, to, i, they, by, he, in, as, and, her, you, from, thy, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words melib, with, that, what are repeated.
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