This is an analysis of the poem The Shepheardes Calender: April that begins with:
APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL
Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XaXa XXXXb XXXX Xcdcd XeXec XXcX XXaca Xefef XcXcffggX hchcXciiX acXcccXac iXibXXeXb XgXgXXbbX XXXXXXaaX cXcajjXaj igiXbXeeX ccXXaXiia ckXkfXiXX aiXiiiXci XXaXXXXXX cXceXhXXhXhXhcXXiaX X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,5,5,4,5,5,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001000100 11010011011 11111101010 10110111011 111011110 11011100001 10010100101 110111001010 101101111 100 1111111111 1101111111 1101110111 1101010111 1001110110 1101111100 1100111110 0101011110 10 1011011101 1111010011 1111011100 111101011 100 10110101001 1111000101 1011111111 1001010101 1101110101 11010010001 1111001111 1101010101 10 10110101101 1111001011 01110110101 1111001101 100 0101101101 01010101001 11111100111 110100101 11110011 1111 01110101101 1101 1111011101 110101011 1101 0101 10011110 0101001101 111 0101011101 0101 1101010011 1101010001 1101 01001 11010101 111101011 11001 1001010101 11001 01010100101 01010110001 10010 11101 01001100 1111101001 1101 0100100101 11101 0111000110 0101100101 0101 010 11110111 1110110101 01001 11111101001 00101 1101010110 1111001111 11011 01001 00010100 111100011010 10110 110100010100 11111 11011001001 111100101 11001 11101 10110011 1101110101 10100 11010110101 01111 111101101 0001100101 101101 110101 011011011 11010110001 11101 1100010101 01100 10111101111 1101000101 110011 11101 10010001 1110010101 00100 110101101 01100 11011010110 1110110010 1101 01011 11001010 11010010101 10001 11011000110 11001 1010010101 01010100100 101011 11110 1101010100 1101011101 01101 1111111010 01001 1111011001 1111011101 11101 11011 11010011 11001110100 01000 110001101 101000 1101010000 1101101110 011 10100 11001110 1110101111 01010 111110101 1001 1111101101 1101011101 101110 1100110 10101101 10 11111010110 1101100110 110100110 11101101101 100 1011110101 110111010 1111011101 110100111100010 1111001000010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 173
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, to, her, they, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, so, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word embleme at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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