This is an analysis of the poem Future Pastoral that begins with:
Dearest, today I found
A lonely spot, such as we two have loved,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede fgfg bhbh aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111 0101111111 1111011001 1001010101 011101 1100010101 1100110111 1111011101 010111 01010101001 1101011101 1101110101 1111001 0100110101 1100010111 0101011011 010101 1111010001 1100010101 1101010111 10110011101 1111010100 0111111101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
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