This is an analysis of the poem Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto I. that begins with:
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,
Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeXeeeddccccaaccXXccff ggaabbhh eeaaeecciijjcc ccjjccaccceegg cXcckkaaffeeaaccffcceecc bbeeihccbbccffgg cccchhllllcccc kkccccjjcchhbb aaeeccccjjgXee ccbbggaacX lcccggccllkk ccbbbb eeiikkccgghhcc hhccbbjlffeeccccgghhcceebbhhgg ccggbbeebbjjcceeeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,22,8,14,14,24,16,14,14,14,10,12,6,14,30,32,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 01001010001 01011101001 11000101101 1100111101 1111110101 11010010111 0101010011 1111111101 1101100101 10010110100 10001110101 1111010111 11010100101 10100111001 01110010101 1011010101 11110100101 1101000101 11001000111 1100011101 1101110101 0111010111 1110110101 1111100101 0111011111 11111100111 1101010101 1011010001 1001010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 110100001001 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 0001010001 10101010101 110100110001 01000010101 1001000101 01010110001 1111010101 101010111 0101011101 10110101010 0010010101010 01110100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11010101101 1101110101 1101011101 1001011101 11111001010 11110011010 1011010101 10010100101 11010010101 11001010101 1101010111 0101110111 0101011111 11011010101 1101010101 1101000101 01001111111 1110010011 110100100101 11010011001 01010101001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011011 1101010101 01001110101 11010101001 0111010101 1101010101 0101110111 10010010101 0101010101 1101010101 1010110101 1001010101 1001010101 100101010101 1101010101 1101010101 10110010101 1001000101 110010101010 0111001101 1111010101 11010101001 01010100111 0111100101 1001010101 0101011101 0101110101 11011100101 1101010101 11001010111 11001010101 110011001001 01110101001 11010100101 1001100101 11110100101 1101010111 1101010100 11010100101 01001000101 1101101101 11000010111 1111010101 111010111 1001010101 11001010101 11001010101 11001010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101110101 1001110101 0101110101 11010101001 1101010101 110101001001 010110101 0101010111 1101110101 10001010101 11010010101 1011000101 1111010101 1101010101 01000100101 1101010101 0101010001 11111101001 1101010101 0101010110 0101010101 11001010101 1101010111 11010010101 10111101001 0101010101 1100100101 1111000101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010110 111100101001 1001110101 01110110001 0101101101 1011010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1001010101 0101011111 1011011101 11010101001 1101010101 1001010101 1001110001 1101100111 11110001001 0101010001 1011111111 11011011010 01010001010 0111110111 1011000101 1101110101 1101011101 1011011101 11001010101 1011000101 1001010111 11110100101 1011110101 11010010001 1001011101 0001011101 1001010101 1111010101 010010001001 1101011101 1011010101 1101110101 11001010101 1011110101 1101100101 01010101001 0101010111 1101010111 1101010101 11010111001 1101010101 1111010111 1111110101 0111110101 01010100101 0101010101 01001001101 0101110101 1001010101 0101111101 0111010101 1111110101 1101111101 1011010101 11010010101 1101010101 11001010001 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 11001000101 1101000101 1101010101 10111101001 1001110101 0101110101 1001010101 1101010001 1111010101 1111010101 01001010101 1101010101 11111101001 11010010101 10110000101 1101000101 1111010101 110111000101 0101010101 1101010101 1011110111 1110010101 11010001001 01010011101 10010011101 11010100101 11110100101 001001010101 11011100101 1101010101 1100110101 11010101001 10001011101 0101011101 010101111 1111010101 1111100001 0101110111 1101011111 1111010101 0101010101 1001010101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 270
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, my, me, his, of, with, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where, the, now, nor are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word prey at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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