This is an analysis of the poem The Pastoral, Or Lyric Muse Of Scotland that begins with:
Blest by the song! (a bard, though humble, cries),
That moves by Pity's power th' infuriate breast;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dedeXfeff ghghhihii fjfjjkjkk ceceeieii fkfkkfkff kikiieiel fbfbbfbff kdkXdkdkk dkdkkkkkk kjXjjkjkk kikiififf aeaeeaeaa fefleXlmm ififfdfdd cccccicii aXaXjkjkX bebeededd dadaababb knkniifjjf oioiccpjjp eqlqeeXq jojobbdbbd kmkmeeadXajjbiib bnbnao
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,10,10,8,10,16,10,10,12,10,10,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1111010101011 1101000101 0101110001 1101111101 1101010001 0111110011 1101110101 11010011100101 1001011111 0101001001 1101110101 11110101001 1101010110 0101010111 11011100101 010010010101 11001011101001 1111110101 01010010101 1101010011 1101000111 1101011101 01010001001 11010010101 100010111001 111101010101 1101110101 1000010101 0101010101 1101100101 1111011101 0011110111 10101011111 11010101001 010111111101 10011010001 1101010001 110010100101 1101110111 1111010101 1101110101 1001011111 1101010101 010101110101 10111101001 01001110101 1001010101 11010110001 1101010101 0101111101 1101111001 0101010101 10011011101001 1001110101 1101010001 110111011001 11001001101 1101010001 11101010111 0101110111 01101011111 010101111100 1101110101 1100010101 1101111101 1101000101 1101010101 011110101001 0101000111 01001010011 111101110101 0101010101 0111011101 1011010101 1011110110 1110010001 11010101000 1101010001 11010101100 11110011010111 0101110101 0101110101 0111011101 1001000010101 10110100101 0101010011 1011000111101 1001110011 1101001010111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010001100 11011101001 01010110101 100010011111 11001010101 110011101011 1100111010011 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010101 11010100111 0101110001 11010100101 1001010101 111101010101 1001010111 1101010101 0101010001 10101010101 11010111101 1011011101 0101110101 1101010101 111101110111 11011111001 1101010001 11110101001 0101011100 11010100111 0101110110 1101010100 1010010101 110101010111 1001110101 1111010101 011110111001 1111011111 100110010101 0111011101 1101011001 0101010101 11010111001001 110111101001 1111110111 0111110101 1111011101 11111111101 1011010101 1101110101 00110010001 110101111101 11110010011 1101111111 110110101 10101110101 1111011101 1101010101 11110101101 1111010111 11001111101010 1111110001 0101111101 0101110011 1111110111 0101111101 11111101001 010001010101 11110101001 01010111011 1001110001 1001110101 01010011001 100111001001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 0101111101 100101110111 11010101 0111010 01011101 1111110 110101001 01010101 110111 11010101 01010111 111111 11011101 010101 01010111 010011 11010111 110010101 010101 11011001 010101001 010101 110101 10010 111100 10110 110101 101101 101100 101010 11010101 010101 01010101 011101 11010101 111100001 110101 01010101 010111001 110101 11010101 110001 11000101 110101 11110101 11011101 110101 10010101 01011110 011111 1010101001 10110101 110101 110110101 11010101 111001 11010101 1101010 11010101 0111010 01011101 01010101 0111001 11011101 010101011 010011 11011101 0100101 01011101 110001 11010010010 1101001010 110111 110010101 01010011 110011 01010111 011010111 110101 11110111 11010001 110101 10011111 11110001 1111010 110101010 110101010 1110010 11111101 111010 11011111 1101010 01011101 010011001 0101010 11110101 110100101 1001010 10010101 1101010 010010101 10101010 010100111 01010101 0101010 11010101 11010101 110101 010101001 010010101 1101001 11110101 01010101 010101 11111101 110011101 010101 11111101 11110001 110101 01011101 111111001 010101 11110101 0100111010 110101 01010101 11010110 010001 11010101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 301
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, his, to, that, of, but, scotia's, by, my, she, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it, a, the are repeated.
The author used the same words it, 'and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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