This is an analysis of the poem Poetry The Pastoral, Or Lyric Muse Of Scotland. Canto First that begins with:

When shall the woes of War and Discord cease!
When shall the morn of Harmony arise!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc deXeefeff dadaagagg Xhchhehee ihihhdXdd jcjccbcbb dhdhhchkc jgXgglgll dedeeieii ecekkcccc fefeeeXXe heheegegg kdkddldll mfmffkfkk gngnnenee enennbnbb hkhkcgkgg bobXekek eXenXkbkcoco hphpggXjjjo ghghhgeeg eednndeefnnf eehddhekekbobo eeliilgXgahha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,8,12,11,9,12,14,13,12,8,10,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101010001 1101011111 1101111101 1111010111 01010011101 1100011101 0101010111 111101011101 1101010101 1111010011 10110011110 1111010111 1101010101 1111111101 1111010101 0101110101 1101001011001 11010101110 0101010111 11010100010 1101111100 10110011101 0101010011 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101001 1101000101 1101010101 0101010111 11001010001 0101111111 1001111011 1111101111 1111110101 100101110101 1101110101 0101010101 0101001101 0101110110 11001010101 0101010101 1100101100 0101110101 010101110101 1001110101 1101011101 1101011011 01001010011 0101011101 1111011101 10100010101 1001010001 110111111101 0111011111 1111011101 100110101001 0101110001 1101010001 10011110101 0101110101 01010001010 1101011101001 11111100111 1101110101 01010011011 1100101100101 100001011101 1011010101 1111011111 100010110001 110101110101 1001010111 11001010101 0101010101 01110101001 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 11001010101 110101011101 100101100011 0101110101 1001011101 11010101010 01010101010 110100101101 01011101010 1011010101 010101010101 1101010101 0101010101 010010111001 0101110101 1010010111001 0101101001001 11010111000 011101001010 100101110101 1101010101 01001010101 01011100111 1001011101 01010101111 1001010101 01011101001 0101010011 110101110101 110111010010 0101110101 010100101010 11010010101 1111010001 0101110111 11010101011 01010100001 010101010101 1111010101 011100100111 0101110101 0101110111 0101000111 100010010010 0110010101 01010101010 11010111001010 1000100101 0101010101 11001000111 10111011101 11111000111 0101010001 10010111001 0101011111 10010011010101 1101010101 0101010011 1011010101 01001010101 1111110101 01010101001 11001010111 0101110111 1100101100101 1001010001 0101011000010 1011010101 010111101010 11110010101 11010101001 11010101010 1101010111 1111011100001 11011101 1111010 11100101 0101110 110011101 11010010 110011101 11010010 11000101 01011000 11010111 01111100 10011101 1101110 11111101 0111010 11011111 1111010 11010101 0111110 110011101 1101010 01010111 1101010 01010101 11111111 1101110 011111001 11010101 11010101 1101010 11110101 111101001 10110001 11010101 01010101 010010101 11110101 01011101 1101011 11111111 11010101 1101110 11110101 01010101 010110010 11111111 01010101 010001 111111101 01010111 010111 010111001 11111101 010011 01011101 11010111 011101 1101111001 1101110 11111101 0101010 11011101 1001010 1100101001 11001010 01011101 0100100101 010001 11001101 010111001 01101011 11010101 100111100 11110101 110101 11010101 11010101 110111 111001010 10101001 11101010 0101101 100111010 1011101 1111000010 1010011 10101010 1011101 10101010 1011111 11100110 1110101 10101110 1010101 10011010 10100101 11100010 1010101 11010111 1101010 11110101 0101010 100011111 11011111 111001 11010101 01011101 100111 1100101100 01011101 1000110 11001101 010011101 0111010 11111101 01011111 011101 11010101 11011101 110101 11011101 0101110 11010101 01001010 110100101 1111010 11110101 1110010 11110101 1110010 1110100101 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 286
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, of, and, to, her, with, his are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word yarrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Poetry The Pastoral, Or Lyric Muse Of Scotland. Canto First;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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