This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xvii The Delights Of The Country that begins with:

Swift Faunus, the god, will quite often exchange
Arcady for my sweet Mount Lucretilis,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab cdXa XdXe bcfX gXgb bbdd efXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011001 10011111000 111110111 0011110101 01001001111 00100101111 101010011 1111111001 10101110100 11110011010 101111110 0010010110 01011111010 11111001101 1001000100 1111001010 11010010011 0010101011 10010011 1001001111 11110100100 11001101001 110100101 1111001001 01001010010 00111010010 011010110 1111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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

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