This is an analysis of the poem Jupiter And The Farmer that begins with:

When Poets gave their God in Crete a Birth,
Then Jupiter held Traffick with the Earth, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbccbbccddeefXfggghhii Xhhbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1100110001 1101010111 1101010001 110101010111 1101110101 1101111101 1000011101 0101110101 1111110101 11001010001 01010010010 11010101010 0101010101 0101111101 0101011101 0101011110 0101010111 1011010001 1101110101 011111110111 011010010101 101100011 1101110101 1101111101 1100010111 11010111001 1111010101 1101011001 111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 690
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • 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; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no are repeated.

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