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

June: AEgloga Sexta. HOBBINOL & COLIN Cloute.
HOBBINOL.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXXa baaaXXaaa XcdcXdcXceaeaaeae bXXXXXXXXXfXffXXX XXXXggXXXhfXffXfX biXiXXXXijajaXjXj fkfXXXkX fXXhhXhX XacaaXaX XXXXXXXX XlhlhhlXl XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,17,17,17,17,8,8,8,8,9,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110010100101 100 1101011101 0101111101 1111110110 01010101001 1111111111 01101101 0101110101 00101111001 10 1101001111 1101111101 1101111011 100101001010 110101101101 11101111 1101010101 11110101101 100 1011111000 0101111001 11110110101 1100111101 1001011101 11011010101 111111111 11011101011 11010101010 11010110101 010001101010 1101111101 1101011101 11100111010 0111110101 11010110110 10 111111010010 0111100101 01010101110 110111011 111010101 0111101010 110111011 110110001010 1111011111 11110101 1111 01110010101 1101011101 01010111011 1100111111 11010100111 100 100111011000 1101110101 11011101010 1101010101 11011001001 01010101010 10111100100 11111101110 1101011101 1111010101 110111001 1000111101 1101001101 1111111111 1110110101 100100111 10 0101001111 11101000101 1101010101 1111110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101111001 1111111111 111011011101 01010110101 1101011111 111101011101 01011100101 010101111 1111011001 0101010001 1111011101 111110101 01011100110 1111111101 0111010111 111010101101 01110110101 111011101 1111111111 1111010101 0110110101 1011110111 0100110011 1111110111 11011101001 111110100 1100011101 101111111 1101010101 11100111101 111001110 110110111 1010111110 1111111110 1101011111 1011111101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 111111011 100 11001010111 11011010101 1101001101 1101010101 1101111001 111111101 110101111 11110101111 1010 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 130
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; nor, in, thy, i, my, he, vs are repeated.

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

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