This is an analysis of the poem The Knight And Shepherd's Daughter that begins with:
There was a shepherds daughter
Came tripping on the waye,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX XbXX XXbX bXXX cXXX Xded aXXX XXXX XfXg hbXX cefX hedX abgX ebcb XibX XbiX gdbX XXiX Xgcg XecX XbXX XbXX Xgag cbgX XXiX cXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110101 11110111 11001 110011010 11011 111101011 1111101 11100110 1111110 111111111 111010 11111101 1110101 101101001 1110110 1111111 111111 111100111 1111010 110100010 1101101 1101001010 111101 111100110 110111 11111110 1100111 110101001 01110110 1111011001 0111100 11100111 11101 1110101 010110 11111101 111111 11010111 01111 11111011 010101 11111111 011101 1111111 010101 111101101 111101 10100100 011101 10100101 11111 1110111 111111 11010101 110111 1101111 111001 11110101 11101010 111101111 1111011 1111111 011101 11011101 110101 10111001 11010010 11011111 111101 1111111 011101 11110101 110101 10110101 110101 11110101 110101 101100101 1111010 110110111 111111 1101100111 0110101 11010111 1010101 110100101 111110 11111001 110101 11010110 1110101 1111111 110101 011110101 111101 1110111 111101 111010111 11101010 11111011 110101 111111101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', she, and, you, of, he, by, have, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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