This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Resolution that begins with:
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa X baaaaBBC caddaBBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101 1111110 111011110010110100 11100101 0110110001 1110101111 110011100101 1111111101 1111111 1101010101 10101110101 1110110101 0110110001 1110110101 10101110111 1111111101 1111111 1101010101 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; if, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word around at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- central theme;
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