This is an analysis of the poem The Sheep-Washers' Lament that begins with:
Come now, ye sighing washers all,
Join in my doleful lay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacBC XcccdcBC efcfXcBC ddedbcBC XggggcBC XbgbhcBC ddeddcBC ididichc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 101101 11011101 010101 11010111 010101 01010111 100101 11110101 011101 01010101 010101 11010101 111001 01011111 100101 01010101 010111 110111001 110101 11010101 110101 01011111 100101 01011000 110001 01010111 111111 01111111 111001 01011111 100101 00110101 111111 11011101 010101 11110111 110101 01010111 100101 11111101 011111 10010011 110101 11011111 011101 01010111 100101 01011111 110101 11010111 111101 11010101 111101 01010111 100101 11010100 100111 1110100 010001 01110100 010101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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