This is an analysis of the poem The Good Shepherd (From The Spanish Of Lope De Vega) that begins with:
Shepherd! who with thine amorous sylvan songs
Hast broken the slumber that encompassed me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabbacddcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101100101 11001010101 1111001001 11110010111 11010101010 1111011110 1001111101 11110001010 11011111110 1101110111 1001001101 11011101010 1111110111 011001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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