This is an analysis of the poem Gentle Herdsman, Tell To Me. Dialogue Between A Pilgrim And Herdsman that begins with:
Gentle heardsman, tell to me,
Of curtesy I thee pray,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa XXXX XbXb cdeX aaea aca dc cf bbXb bX XcXa Xg aa Xb Xa eX ha gXXX XXiX Xjfj aaia caXa cbhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,3,2,2,4,2,4,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 0100111 10010100 10011101 10010100 01011001 110101110 110111100 1010101 1011011 101011110 10110111 110111101 11111111 111101111 101011010 110111011 01101111 11111101 1101101 11111101 11111101 11010101 1 011101 1 101011010 11010011 111100101 11001101 1 11010010 1 11011 1 1 1 010111 11 1101 11 111111 111 111101 101 11101 110 110101 11 11111101 110101101 11111110 10111101 110100100 01110101 11100101 11110110 11011111 11001101 110011111 0100100 110011111 11001111 11101101 11011101 11010111 11110111 10010100 1101111 111101101 11110111 11110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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; soe, thy, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words itt, my, and are repeated.
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