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

September: Ægloga Nona. Hobbinol & Diggon Dauie.
Hobbinol.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: X XaX Xbbbb XXbXc XXXdd XbbeXbbXXbX XeeeXXeefXXXgghhbXiibbX XXeeXajjbb XXXXXXXXXaXiX XbbbbXi XXXXXkXjXXlbbXhkkaXXcXXXXXdgg XXX XbbXabXbbmXeXaXXXXlXnbbbbeeXbXXXo XXXccX XXXohhjjXb XmmgXXX XllbbXX XfX XXXooXXXX XbXXXaXcc XnnXXXXXeXXjjXXbXaaXbXXXcXnbX XXahX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,5,5,5,11,23,10,13,7,29,3,33,6,10,7,7,3,9,9,29,5,15,5,7,7,7,11,3,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010100101 100 10111011 110001110 10 01010111 110001101 11110101 111101111 100 101011111 1011101101 1001111101 11011011101 10 1110100111 10011111111 1101011011 111011101 100 111011001 1101001001 1101001101 10101010101 111011111 11101010111 11111011 1101101011 1111101001 111101110 10 11101010111 010101101 0111011001 010101111 111011010 1111011011 111011111 0110011110 110111101 111101101 11111010 110011101 110010101 0101101010 11010001010 1101011001 110100101 010111011 1001010101 1101111101 1100111111 111010101 100 101111111 11111101 110101101 11000110 100101001 11111001 111111011 110110101 111101111 10 101101101 111101101 101011111 010011101 01010111 110101001 11011101 1111110101 10111111 1011001110 10110111 11101110 100 11111111 11010101 1011011 11110101 1101111 11111101 10 11111011110 0110110010 1101001011 101101001 110111111 111100101 110010010111 110111111 1110111010 11001010101 1011010111 11001101001 1101001011 10011101110 111101001 0101011111 111101011 11111110 110110111 1101111001 111101110 111111111 111110111 0100011010 11111111 1110101101 111101011 111111111 100 101101111 1101011001 10 11000101011 100101001 11110110 101101011 1101011101 11010101011 101111011 111101011 1110111101 111010110 1101011011 010110101 111000111 11010111 011111001 011100100 110010011 1010100101 111101001 1100101111 11100100101 1011010011 10111011 101101101 11010101011 1100100001 11101110010 101101101 010101111 111101101 1101000101 1111000101 100 1101111001 100001001 110111001 11101110001 10110011011 10 1101011001 1111000101 101111101 1101111110 10110111110 1110101111 110100101 1100101010 111101011 100 11110111110 101110101 101111011 101110100 1010100101 01100101110 10 111101011 1010101101 111101101 110101011 11010111 100110101 100 111111010 111100111 10 101100111 1110101011 1101011001 1101001011 1111001100 11011110100 111111111 10010111 100 101101101 11111110 10111110 1001010100 101110011 111011011 1011110101 111100111 10 11101111 110101101 101101101 110101011 101100101 10100111001 11111010 101101011 100100101 10011101 111111111 111110101 100101001 01011101 1111011011 010101101 111101101 010111001 0110110101 0100111111 111101001 1101101011 110100101 1100111101 111111001 10111001 11101001001 1110101101 100 101011110 01011101 110101001010 11110110110 10 101111111 10111100111 1010100111 111110101 11001100100 111000101 1000111110 010101001 110111001 111111101 1101111011 110101101 111101001 10101111 100 111111111 1110011 0110101111 11110101 10 11011100 100101100 110101011 111111011 11100111 010111101 100 110111011 101100111 1100111101 111010110 11110101 1100110011 10 111001011 1100111110 111111111 110111001 101001111 011100110 100 111110101 010101111 100111101 11010111 101001111 10111111 1001101101 111111110 111100101 110101101 10 1100110110 101111011 1010 10011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 290
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; diggon, her, and, of, i, they, hem, their, sike, at, his are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Shepheardes Calender: September;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Edmund Spenser