This is an analysis of the poem Folding The Flocks that begins with:
Shepherds all, and maidens fair,
Fold your flocks up; for the air... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdddeeffccgghhiijjccddkkXdll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1111101 1010101 01001111 1011111 100101010 1011101 1010101 10101110 11100110 0110101 1110101 1110101 110100101 0110111 1011111 1101101 1001011 11111101 1011101 0010111 1011101 1010101 1011101 0011001 0110101 1110101 1011101 10111010 11101010 1111111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1025
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 is repeated.
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