This is an analysis of the poem The Shepheardes Calender: Januarie that begins with:
Januarie: Ægloga Prime. Colin Cloute.
A Shepeheards boye (no better doe him call)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abaXXX XacaXX dXXXXX ebXXbb beXeXd bXbXdX fefeee bfXfXX XgXXdd XbXbXX XdXXcc heheXg XbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101101 01001110111 1101011111 10010011001 1101110110 1111110001 111011101 11011101001 1111110101 1111111111 1111011101 1001010111 1111010111 11011111 010101011 1011101010 1111011101 1111011111 1010111111 11011101110 1101000111 101101111010 1101010001 1101110101 1101011111 1111010011 111101101 110101111001 1011011101 11011110110 1101100101 1101110111 0101010111 1111011101 10010101101 111101011011 1101010010 1111010111 11010101110 0101110101 0110010110 10110101001 11110010001 1101110111 1111111101 1101111100 110101001 1111111110 0101110101 0101011110010 0111010101 11110101101 0111110111 11111111111 1111111111 00110010011 0111110101 0101110110 010010010101 11010011101 1001010010 1111011111 1110011111 1101100111 1011010101 101110101 110010110111 10011011111 1111011111 111011101 1101111111 111111011 1101011111 1101010110 0101110101 0101111100 1101011010 0111010101 1101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, his, thou, thy, my, and, your, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.
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