This is an analysis of the poem The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie that begins with:

Februarie: Ægloga Secunda. CVDDIE & THENOT.
CVDDIE.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXbXccXX XXXddeeffXXXgXfhh XhXiijXgX XXXXXdXjjXXXXXgXXXX XeXiikXllXXXXXXXgXX XXg XXXggXXjjggkXbb XbbmmXXmmg XgXkX XcXXbjXXXXgbXjjkXhXXXXXXXXXbbbXcXXjXXXXXXXXXXXiiXXXXnnXghXiXiiXXXceebbffXcXhggbXeXgggXaXggXXXXooXXbbXXiicXXXXXiXpXXXiipXmmccjjXXXXXXgXbbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,17,9,19,19,3,15,10,5,142,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010110 1 11111101 110110110 0111011101 111010101 1101011011 111100111 1100111110 111111010 10 10100111 010111011 1101100101 000110101 01110101 111000101 101100101 101110101 111111110 10111001010 110010111 010110101 111101010 11011101 11111111 101101111 1 1101001111 1000010101 111100111 011101011 1101010101 1101101001 111010101 11101001 10 010011101 111000110 1101110100 10110001010 110101101 1100010110 111110101 1100101011 110001001 111111101 1011001010 101011100 100100101 110011101 1011001010 11001011010 111010110 0101101100 1 110111111 1101110101 111110001 110111101 110111010 11111001010 111111111 111011101 10110111101 010011110 1101101001 1100101101 110110101 1100111010 110001001 10010101 1111001111 111111110 10 110101101 110101101 1 11111010 11110110 010101111001 0100111101 111100001 10010101 10111101 1101011111 10111011 111001011 111101101 1101001011 01010101001 1111001011 10 11111100 1100101101 1100101101 1101001101 1101001110 1100010101 111110101 1110100011 100110101 1 011101101 1011001 1101110111 11101110 10 101101011 11011101 11101001 1100111001 11111101 0101111010 011111010 101110100 010111001 1010101001 1011001001 1101001001 100110101 11011101 011001001 011110010 010010101 110110101 110100100 11010100 1110001001 1100110010 0101001010 0111000100 100110101 011001011 110101111 110111101 110011111 111111101 11111101011 111110101 101011101 011000101 101010101 111011001 11010011001 0111110 110011110 1001111101 1101010101 110110110 101100110 1100111100 100111100 11010101 011010111 01001001 101010101 1101001110 10011101 10110111 111101011 101101101 1011101 1111101001 111100110 111100101 110010110 100100101 110010101 110100110 010111011 1110101 010010101 111010101 1100111011 111100111 000110111 01010001001 110100101 110110101 110011101 11011101 1110101 1000011101 1101001101 1101101101 110110011 100110101 11001001100 1111010101 111001111 11011111 1011101010 101101111 11100010 010010001 11111000111 0101010100 110001001 00011101 11111010 110110010 100111010 1111001001 1000101001 0100101101 011011011 100101110 110101110 101111001 10001111 100110101 111010011 010101110 101100101 1001001011 101101010 101101101 10010010 110100101 110100010101 11101010 110010010 1111101001 1100011101 01110101 11010110 01011101 110011111 0100110101 11111101 11011101 110110101 11011110 110111100 1100101010 01010010 11101001 111101111 111010101 110111000 01011011 0111101 11110111 11111111 110101001 0011101101 111000101 1101 1 1111101011 100111101 111110011 110001011 110010111 111011011 11010111110 01110010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 854
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 258
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; from, of, to, thy, as, his, so, whose, and, with, for, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, such, his, thy, whose, and, for, the are repeated.

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