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

July: Ægloga Septima. Thomalin & Morrell.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXX abcXc XXXXXdadaXXXXdedeXXXXdbdX aXXfXXgXghdhXaaaabXbd XdXdi XXjbjkXXXaaaaXdXdiXilXmXmXdXXiXXXXXbX XXhaXXXXXXfnfXXXkXkkkjiXiXhdXdfdfkXkXcXcXXoXXkXXXlbXbfiXXXcXcXfXXfjXjXdhdXXXXikiXaXadkXkXbXbXXikXpapaXfjfXXXXXebe aloloXXXXcX XXXXcacXnXcXXXb aagXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,25,21,5,37,113,11,15,5,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001010001 100 011101001 1101101 11010111 100101 01 1111101 110101 10010101 111111 100 11111111 110110 01011100 11011 01010101 0101110 11111101 1001110 1101111 010001 10011001 11010 01010111 010101 1100101001 111101 1001101 11110 01001101 00110 10110101 010101 11110101 110011 01 1011011 1101011 101101101 011111 01111001 1101001 1101111 100111 10111111 1100101 10110111 111101 11110101 111111 11001101 01011 11010111 1110 1001101 111001 100 1111101 110111 10010101 0101101 10 10110101 10011 11010001 011101 111010101 110111 100111010 010101 1011101 011110 11010101 110101 11010010100 010001 111110100 010101 01011111 101101 110100111 010101 110101010 1100101 11011001 0101011 011011010 100101 100101010 010101 110100101 11000110 011101001 0101110 1000110101 110101 111101001 110110 100 101110110 010101 101111101 1101011 01010111 1101111 111101010 110101 10110101 1100101 110011100 10101 11011110 111100 111010111 110101 101011011 1110010 1110011 10010010 0111101 110101 11101101 110101 1111001100 100001 1101000101 111111 10110001 110101 111110111 111001 11111111 110101 11010110 110101 11111110 101101 10110101 011101 1011011 010101 10011001 010100 1101111 11111 11010110 010101 11110100 11010 01011110 0100101 11011101 110111 11110101 111101 11111111 111101 1011110 111101 11010111 111101 01010100 111101 11110101 111101 01111101 110101 010100111 010101 01011111 111111 10110111 111101 1101001 110111 1110111 010101 1101011101 101101 1101001011 111101 1111011 110111 100101001 11010010 11110011 111111 11000111 111100 01010111 111100 110011111 1101101 111101101 0101101 11011101 110101 01011101 111111 11111110 1101101 11110111 111101 1100011 100101 11111101 1101001 110110110 1101001 11010111 110101 10 100110010 111010 1101111110 111010 11011111 010101 111011101 000101 110110101 101110 100 10010101 1110110 1111101 111101 11111101 010101 1101011 110100 11011111 011111 11011011 1100101 11100001 110101 01 10100111 110101 11110111 111101 10010 010010 1010 0101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 247
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; as, and, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, theyr, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines keepe is repeated).

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