This is an analysis of the poem The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk that begins with:
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire.
... equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXX bbccddeeffggeecccchheehhccgXiihhfffXiiaXhhccXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101011 1001011100010 100 110 1101010101 1101110111 1011110101 11010011101 1001011001 1100010101 01010010101 1011010101 0101010101 0100010101 0101010101 1101010001 1001111101 1011010101 1101111101 10111010101 1101011101 0101001101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101011101 0101011101 0101101101 0101011101 0101010001 110011000111 101110010010 1101110101 01011000101 11010100101 0101010101 1101010101 11001110101 1101111110 01001110101 0111110101 1101010101 0101110101 110111010010 1111110101 1001010111 10010111001 0101000101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 534
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, each are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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