This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Week : Saturday; Or, The Flights that begins with:

Bowzybeus.
Sublimer strains, O rustic muse, prepare;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbccddeeffgghXddggggiiggiieeiieeeebXbbXXXaiigaahheeffbbddggggjjcbggbbgghhbbggiibbbbeeccXgggggiikkddhXggcccXhhXXeeaaggXbiihXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 128,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100 1001110101 0101011101 11010100101 01010101001 010010111 11110100101 1001010101 0011010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1101000101 0011110101 1101110101 10010111001 1101011101 1111110111 1101000101 0111010101 1111010101 110111001 0111011101 110011101 10010010101 110010101 1111000101 110010101 1011001101 1101010101 1010010101 110111111 0101011101 1111010111 1111010101 1011110101 1101010101 1101100101 11010101010 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 01010100110 01111111010 1101110101 1101110101 1111010111 1001110111 1101110111 1100100101 0101010110 1011110101 1111010101 1101111111 1101110101 1101010101 1001011101 10111011101 0111110101 1001111101 1111100101 1011010111 1101011111 10010111001 1100010101 1101011111 1101010111 1011111111 11011101001 1101110111 1111110111 1111010101 11010100111 01001000101 1101010101 1101110101 1011111101 11110001001 01001010111 1101111101 0111010101 1101010001 0100110111 010101011 1101100101001 1101010101 11000101010 100111110010 01111111 01010111001 1111110001 11001010101 1110110101 11010100101 1101010111 11001010101 1101001111 1111110011 1101110101 1011010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1001110110 1100101111 0111010111 1101111101 1101010101 1001010111 1011110110 1011011111 1011011100 1111000101 1101010101 1101011101 1010010101 1111010101 1101011101 01001001101 1101111111 01010100111 1101110101 1011111101 1101110101 0101010101 0101011110 01011010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5708
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1012
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • 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; she, and, with, in, his, to, or, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, how are repeated.

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