This is an analysis of the poem Eclogue that begins with:

ALLOPHANES.
UNSEASONABLE man, statue of ice, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXccccddeeeeffffaacghhffeXffgghheeeea cceehhijkkllmmnne eeeebboojjppffjjbbXXeeeejjhhoocciieel kkppjjbboobbfa j q jjcgllrreese X f ffffllooeeXE X b kkjjlleeeee X o sseecclXeejE j X ijooeecceefE j h jjkkllcceeXe X l XshhjjppeXne X f jjeekkffeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,17,37,14,1,1,12,1,1,12,1,1,11,1,1,12,1,1,12,1,1,12,1,1,12,1,1,11,1,1,12,1,1,12,1,1,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1000 100011101 1101010101 1001110101 1010100101 10101111101 01001111101 1100010101 11001101101 1111011101 0101010101 11001110111 1101111101 0111110101 0101001001 11001010010 0111011110 01001101010 11011111010 10111110111 0111010101 1111011001 0101110100 01010001101 0111011101 1011010111 11001010101 1101011101 01110011100 1011010111 1011110101 10110101110 11011110010 1101011101 101101001111 1111111101 0100110101 1111111101 1111110101 111001 101111 11001010101 1111110100 1101111111 11110111111 1111011100 11001010100 0101010111 1101010101 11001010111 10101010101 1100010101 0101000111 0101111101 10010011111 1111011101 111101 10001011 1101011101 0010010111 0101110011 0111110111 1110011111 0110010101 1101111101 1101010101 11011010001 1101111001 1111011101 010100101001 1011000101 1100101101 1101110110 11010101111 1101010101 1101111101 1111111110 1101001101 0111010101 1001111111 1100110001 11010101001 1111010111 1011011111 1101010100 0001010101 0100011101 1111111011 1101011101 1101011100 1011000100 1001010011 1011010101 111111001 1011 1011011101 0111101101 1001010101 0011111111 1011101101 11110111101 1001011101 1101011111 1001111001 11111110111 1101110111 1110111101 1010111101 1 010010 11100111111 11011111 11011101 111101010010 111101 1110010101 0100011111 1101110101 0111101001 1010010101 01001010110010 1 1 0100010 1100011111 00110111 10110100 1010111110 0111011 0110011101 0111010101 1101010101 0101111101 0111110101 11100101110 101 1 100011 1001010101 10111111 1111011 1101111111 111001 1011010101 11011011001 1100010101 0111011101 0100110101 010010101101101 1 10001 1101110011 01110111 11111111 1011010110 1011001 1001110111 1101110101 111101010 111111101001 01011101101 011110101011 101 1 01000 1110010100 11010101 11110111 1110111101 111111 1100010111 110010001001 1111111111 11110010101 10110101001 11010111010 101 1 100010 1011110111 11110101 01011101 1111011101 111101 1011110111 0101010101 1101001111 11001110101 1000101101 11011111110 111 1 01010 1101111100 10111101 11110101 1101110111 111101 111101001 1111100111 1001011101 1011111101 1101110100 0101110010101 01 1 1110 1111011001 10010101 01011101 1101011111 100101 1011011101 11001011101 1101111111 11101010101 0111001101 01101101010001 1 011001 1111010001 01111111 11111111 1010101101 111101 11101101001 1101110101 1011111111 1111110101 111110110011 110011101011 101 1 01110 1111011101 11010001 11011111 101010101101 111111 1011011001 1111010110 1111010111 1111110011 11110101001 11011010111011 1 1 001 1101011111 01101101 11111101 0111010001 1010101 11110111010 1101011101 11010101101 00111011111 10110101001 110010101101101 101111011111 0011011101 10001101011101 1010100101 0101100101 1101010100 0101011101 1110011111 10011101001 110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 280
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, their, of, thou, from, where, to, i, as, which, you, church, till, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whilst, the, and, where, to, thou are repeated.

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