This is an analysis of the poem The Shepheardes Calender: December that begins with:
December: Ægloga Duodecima.
He gentle shepheard satte beside a springe, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXaabXbXXc XXXXdX efeXXX XgXgdX XdhdXX Xijigg fcfcaX XaXadd XkbkXX XkfXXX kgdgXX gcXXgg bdbXaa XjjjXX XXXXcX cXcXXX XfXfll meXedX XdlXXf XfXfXX XdadXX XXXddX kXkXXd XXhXii XXXXmm XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101000 1101010101 1001000101 1101111111 1101000101 1111010101 1111010101 1101110101 1011010101 1111001011 110100101 1011011110 1001111111 1110101101 1101010101 101110111 100101111 1001011100 01010100100 10011111001 1101110111 1101011101 1101010111 110100101101 100101001010 11011001010 11010011101 110101010010 1101011101 11101101 111101111 110111011 1001010001 1111001001 0101110101 101111111 1100111011 11110111010 1001111011 11101011010 10010011101 0011010101 1111110001 1111010101 010111101 10110011001 0101111111 10010100101 0101010101 1111111110 010111111 110100111 1101111101 111111111 1101111011 111100111100 1101011001 1110010101 0101110101 010111101 111110101 1111111110 1111011101 110111101 1111110101 0111010111 010110100101 1111010101 10010100101 01100111111 111010101 1101011101 01101111 1101110101 1101010101 101111101 01001010110 1101010101 1111111111 0111010100 1100100111 1010010101 11011101001 1110100101 11011101011 1111111010 0101000101 0101110011 01001111111 1101100101 1101011001 111110101 11010101001 1111011111 11011111001 11111111101 111111111 10110101110 1011010101 0111010110 111110101 0101101111 1111110001 11001011011 110010111 1111110111 01010100101 1101101101 1101110111 01010101101 101011110101 11010111101 110010110101 1111110001 01010110101 1111010111 101000101 1101110111 111111011 0101110110 1011010111 1101110111 11101101 1111110101 1011111101 1101100101 1110100101 11111000101 10101110111 1101011101 11110100111 11110100101 1101011111 01001111101 10111100111 1110010111 1111010111 0101101101 1111101110 1111011101 1101110011 101111101 1101010101 10011100101 110101111 1010101101 1101110111 1111101111 1011011101 100111001001 1101010101 0110011110 0111111111 0111010111 01110111100 0101001111 11000101001 1010 1001001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 159
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, of, i, to, my, and, which, yet, bene, me, winter, adieu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my, the, why, thus, so, adieu are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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