This is an analysis of the poem An Invitation To Dafnis that begins with:
When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine,
Warm without Sun, and shady without rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddeefF bbeeffaaaaFF gghhfF eeXcccaaiiffeXfF jjddfXiXdXFF bbddXhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,6,16,12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011001 1011110011 11111101010 110100101010 0101010111 110011000101 1011111101 1011010101 1111001101 1101010101 1101000101 11010101001 1001010001 0100101101 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101010110 1101110101 0101001101 1111010101 11010101001 1111011101 1011010001 110100111 1101110101 1111010101 11010101001 11111001101 1101011001 1111011010 1011000101 1101010111 1101010111 1001010111 0111110101 1001010111 1101001101 1111010111 1001011101 1001110101 01010010010 1111010101 11010101001 1101111101 1101111001 1111011111 1101010101 010011101111 11110010001 1101010011 1011011101 1111010001 1101110110 1111010101 11010101001 1101010111 0101010101 1101011111 1001110001 111101011 1111110101 1111011101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, to, all, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word stray at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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