The Shepherd's Address To His Muse by Anonymous Olde English: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Address To His Muse that begins with:

Good Muse, rocke me aslepe
With some sweete harmony;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX bXcX XXXX XXXd dXdX cdcX bdcd XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 011110 011100 0110101 110100 111001 111100 1011010 110100 111101 110111 11010101 100101 010101 101111 1111101 110101 011101 1101001 01011111 110111 110001 1101001 11011110 010001 11101101 0111110 11000111 1101010 111101 111001 11010101 001110 111111 1101101 11110101 011111 10011 111011 10111110 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, my are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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