This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherds Calendar - July that begins with:

Daughter of pastoral smells and sights
And sultry days and dewy nights... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,396,206,12,8,12,84,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3557
  • Average number of words per stanza: 674
  • Amount of lines: 728
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, so, his, wi, as, their, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, as, the, from are repeated.

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