This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherds Calendar - May that begins with:
Come queen of months in company
Wi all thy merry minstrelsy... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffgghhffiijjXdkkllllmmnnllffoolXbbllhhggccnnllllfffflaoohhbbppmmnnppffiiXhllggllccllggoobbccccmmcclXfXccnnjjccoocclaffoofXaaffffffggffffggffhhccqqffnnnnffXdooccccooffXrXjggmmffggXnqqffllccnnllffcceefXffllssnnffffhhcceeXXgglroobbffccggccmmddllllo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 470,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 11110100 01011101 110010101 11110111 010011101 11010101 111100111 11000110010 110111010 11111101 11010001 01010111 01110101 11110101 11010111 11110111 011100111 11010101 11010001 11010101 10110101 11011101 10110001 011101001 11111101 010011001 11111111 11011111 11010101 10111101 010011101 01011101 11111101 10111101 11110101 11010101 11110101 01010101 01011101 11011101 110111101 11110101 11011101 10010101 01010101 01110101 1001100101 11010111 01110101 110001010 110101010 111101101 11010001 11011101 110011101 11110101 10110001 110011101 11011111 110111010 111111010 01111111 11010100 11010101 11010111 11011101 01011101 01011111 11010101 11100101 01100111 11010111 10110001 11100101 011101001 110111001 10110101 11010101 1100111 10010101 0101101 01100101 10010101 11010111 11010101 11011101 11001111 11010101 11011101 100010111 1011001 110101101 01011101 10110001 01111111 101101111 010100101 11011111 11001101 101011101 01010101 11010111 11010110 1010101 0010101 11111101 01000101 11111101 11010101 111110101 110111000 11010101 01110001 11110101 010100101 11010111 01010101 01011111 010100101 01010111 01110001 110000101 100101001 11111011 01010100 1110101 01010101 01111101 11110101 11110101 11011101 110100010 111111010 11011101 11110111 111101010 110001010 11010101 11001101 11011101 11100101 01010101 11010001 11010101 10111101 11010101 01010001 110001010 110110110 11010101 11101101 11110101 11011101 11011001 010110111 11110101 01110101 11111101 10111101 11011101 11100101 110101010 100101110 11110101 11111101 11110101 11110111 11010101 11011101 11110111 01011111 11000101 11010101 111101010 111101010 01010111 11011101 01110111 110010101 11010111 11010101 11000101 11010101 110011101 11001101 11011111 11010101 11010110 111100101 01010111 01010101 111101010 1011011110 100111110 01110101 01111101 11111101 110100101 11010001 11001101 11111101 11111101 10110101 11011101 01110101 111111010 011101010 110111001 11111101 01010101 11011101 11110101 01010101 01110101 10011101 11011001 01111101 11010111 11010101 11010101 01010101 110111001 01110101 10111001 11110101 111101110 110101010 10011100 11111101 11011101 11110101 01111101 11000101 01110101 01011111 111101001 01011101 01010101 11010111 110110101 11110101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 01011111 01111101 10111101 11110101 11011101 01011101 10011101 11010101 10010111 11110101 10111111 11110001 11110011 110100111 01011111 01011101 11110001 10110101 11011101 01110101 01000101 101101001 11110101 11011110 01110111 10000101 110101100 01010101 1011111 01011001 01011101 110110101 11011101 10111101 11011101 11010101 11011101 10111101 01110101 110010001 11011111 110101001 11110101 11101101 11010101 01010001 111100101 10010101 010111101 01010101 0101011 11110101 01110101 11001101 11010101 11101001 01011111 01011101 10010101 1111101 11000101 01011101 11110101 1000101 11110101 11011101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010111 111111001 01010011 10110101 01011101 11011111 11110111 01010101 11010101 01010101 01110101 11010101 01110101 100101010 110111010 0110101010 101111010 11111101 11001001 110101010 111101010 11010101 01011101 11010101 10010101 11010101 011110101 101010111 100010111 1010111001 11011110 010100101 11011101 11110101 11100101 11110011 010111101 010010101 00110111 01011101 10010111 11010101 01000101 111101100 010001010 00111010 1010111 01000101 10010101 01110101 11111101 01010101 111111001 11010101 1000111 10111101 11110101 11010110 11111001 11010111 01010101 10110101 01110101 11011111 11010101 10011101 010100101 11011001 11010101 1011001010 110111010 01010101 010100101 01010101 11010110 11000101 11010101 011101100 11010101 01010111 10100101 110000101 010101001 10110011 11110111 01010101 11111101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 110010101 11010101 10010101 10110101 10010101 01010001 11110101 100101001 110001001 11010101 10111101 11000101 110111010 110111010 11010111 10110101 01011111 01011111 11110101 01110101 11111101 01010111 11111101 111111001 11011111 10010101 110110101 11010101 01111111 01111001 110101111 110001001 11100111 11010101 01010101 10011101 11110101 110010101 11010101 01010001 011101001 01111101 01110101 10011111 01011110 11110111 11010101 1011101 11010111 11011101 10111111 11010101 11010101 01011101 01110111 11010101 11011111 10110101 11010111 11011000 111110010 101111010 01111110 001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 16295
- Average number of words per stanza: 3062
- Amount of lines: 470
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, and, as, to, in, their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to are repeated.
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