This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Week : Thursday; Or, The Spell that begins with:
Hobnelia.
Hobnelia, seated in a dreary vale,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbccddeeffGXhhiibXffccGXiiggcXjjGXggkkcckkllGXaaggggaaddGXmmggccGXkkggccbXkkiiGXnniXbbGXbbggbbGXllbggiiGXkkccbbfXGXkkiiiieeccGXeeXgbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 136,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100 1001000101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010111 0101010101 1100010101 01011011001 0101100101 11010110001 0111001101 1011111111 1111111101 1111010110 1101110111 11010101001 1101010011 10011011111 1111011101 0101011110 11011111111 0111010101 1101000111 1001010101 1111111101 1111010110 1111101111 1001010111 11010111001 11100100111 1110110111 1111100111 1111101111 0011011101 1111111101 1111010110 1101011101 11000100101 1101110101 0101110101 0111010101 01111111001 1111101111 0101011110 1100110101 1111111101 1111111101 1111010110 1111110101 1111010101 01011010111 1111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1101101111 00110101001 1101010101 1101010011 1111111101 1111010110 1101110001 1011110111 0001011101 1001010101 1101111101 1111101101 1111111101 1111010110 11011111001 1111010111 11110110101 11001010101 1111110101 1001010101 0111111110 1001010100 1111010101 1111110101 1011001101 1101010111 1111111101 1111010110 0101110101 1101110101 1101111111 1101011111 1111100111 0111100101 1111111101 1111010110 1101011101 1101010101 110010101011 0101001101 1111010101 1101010101 1111111101 1111010110 0101010101 1001110111 0111110001 1100110101 0101010101 1100110001 1001011111 1111111101 1111010110 1100110101 11010010001 1111010111 111101011 0101110101 1111010101 11011011101 10011101100 1111111101 1111010110 1111111101 0101110101 1111010111 1111011101 1001000111 1011011101 1010111101 1001110001 1101000111 1101010111 1111111101 1111010110 1111111101 10101110001 11111001100 1111011101 1111111011 1111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5960
- Average number of words per stanza: 1137
- Amount of lines: 136
- 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; in, day, i, around, seed, my, knot, he, adown are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hobnelia, as are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hobnelia connects the lines.
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