This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherds that begins with:
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure
Waits innocence and pleasure),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbeeeebbeeffccggeehhiiXdjjbbddiikkiillkkccddll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010 1100110 11001101101 0101111 1100100101 110111 1101110111 011101 100111111 010111 1101010111 111101 1111111011 111101 1111110001 011101 1101010111 111101 0101011111 11011 1101010101 11011 01011011101 010111 111101001 110011 0101011111 110101 1111011111 000101 1101111100 011111 1101111111 110101 1010111101 110111 0111011011 001101 1101111101 1011101 1111110101 110101 1111100101 101101 0111110111 011101 1111111101 110101 1111111101 110111 0111101111 111101 1001011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2001
- Average number of words per stanza: 359
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, to, that are repeated.
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- summary of The Shepherds;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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