This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Week (Excerpt) that begins with:
MONDAY, OR, THE SQUABBLE
Lobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleCUDDY... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aabbaaccbbddeefg ddcX Xg eeaaggdX hhbbbbhhfg ddccXX fXbbfg hheefX ddccag ddhXaX iiddffX aabbXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,16,4,2,8,10,6,6,6,6,6,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010 10110100000 1101011101 1101111101 11010001001 01010101001 0100110101 0111011101 1111010101 1101111101 1111010001 1101010101 1101111101 1111010101 1100111101 1101101001 1100110101 1100110101001 1001111101 1001010111 0111010101 110101101100 0111011101 0101011101001 1100000101 1111010101 1001110111 1001010101 1001000101 1001011101 1100110011 1101011111000 1110000101 11011100101 1111010101 1101100111 0101110101 0101010101 01011101001 1111110101 1101111111 1110010101001 1011110001 0001110101 0011010111 0101110111 11000111010 1101111101000 1010011111 1111110101 1101010101 1101111101 1011111101 1101110100001 11000001001 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 0111010101 011101010100 1110000101 0101010101 1101011111 1111010111 1011011011 0111010101001 1001010101 0101011001 1111010101 1101010100 1111010101 1111110111000 0011111101 0111010101 1011010111 1111011001 1111111110 1111110111 100 10010111011 1101110101 1101110111 1101010101 1111010110 1100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; that, fair, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fair, the are repeated.
The author used the same words my, as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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