This is an analysis of the poem Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto Ii. that begins with:

Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,
Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffffggdd hhhhaaddccdd ccaaaabbaaccggXcaaddbbccddffddaaaaXgccaaiiddjjkkaa eeccffaaaaa aaiiffaajjbbggaaddffddaall bbmmiicc aaggggmmffgggg aaiikkaaaaaaiiaaffmmbbmmdd nnoommaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,12,50,11,26,8,14,26,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101100101 1011011101 11010011101 1101010111 11010100101 1001010101 1101010101 1001111101 0101010111 110010001001 1011000101 1101010111 1101110001 1101010101 1111001101 1101000101 00110011101 1101011101 1011011101 1111110101 0101010111 11110100101 1101010101 0101110101 1111010101 101101110001 1111110101 1101010101 11001110101 1101010101 1101010001 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 01100010101 0101010101 10001010101 11010000101 0101101001 0101111111 0101110101 1011011001 1011010101 1101011101 1111010110 1101000101 1001010101 10010100101 1101010101 1101010101 01010110101 1101010001 1101100101 11010010101 11010010101 1101010101 1001010101 11001010111 10010011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 01010100101 1011010101 1101010110 1101000101 1101110101 01111110101 01001000101 1111010101 01001010101 1101010111 1101011101 11010101001 1001110101 1101011101 1101010101 1011011101 01110111001 0110111111 01001110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101000101 11010100101 1011010101 1001010101 1101010001 01100010101 1101010101 0111001101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1001110101 01010100101 1101110111 1101011111 1101010101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010001 1101110101 0101010101 10111101001 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 1011110111 11010010101 1101001101 11001100111 11001111111 1111111111 11011101001 1110011101 0101010101 0111011101 10011110111 11010100101 1011110101 01010101001 1101010101 1101010101 1101000011 1101010101 1101011101 1101100101 1101010101 11001011101 11010101011 1101110101 110100100101 1101011101 0101000101 1101010101 1101000101 1100010101 0101111111 11000111011 1101000110 1100110101 1101000101 1101010101 11010100001 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010011 0101010101 0001010111 1111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101001101 0101110101 1101101101 0101110101 1001010101 11010010101 1101010101 1101010111 01100001001 1101111101 0101000111 11001100101 0101000101 11010110110 11010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 771
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 173
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, he, their, she, to, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, or, the, to, and, farewell are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shade is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word dies at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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