This is an analysis of the poem The Passionate Shepherd To His Love that begins with:
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccbb bXXd ddee bbaA ffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 11010101 1101111 1110101 1101011 10010111 11010011 010011100 110111010 10101010 01010101 010101010 01100101 10110111 1110101 01000101 01011101 01011101 10110111 11011011 01011111 11011110 01011111 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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