This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Week : Tuesday; Or, The Ditty that begins with:
Marian.
Young Colin Clout, a lad of peerless meed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaaccbbaaccddeeeXddfggaaffddccaaddbbhhaaiiaaaXddhhaabbjjffiiaahhddXkllddiimmiibbaaaaddffmmiikkddaXmmXjdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 106,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100 1101010101 1111110101 01001010101 11001010101 1001010111 0101000111 1110010101 010100101001 110100100101 0101110001 100111101001 1100010101 10010100111 11010100101 11001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111110110 1011110101 01110011101 0100010111 01011100101 1101110101 1101110111 1111110101 1111110101 1101011101 0101111101 1111011101 1101111111 11111101001 0111011101 1111100111 01010010111 11001111101 11011010101 01011100101 10011110111 1101001101 1101110111 1111010101 1101110101 0101011111 01000100101 1111010111 1101001101 1101110011 10011100101 0111110111 0001110101 1101001101 1101011101 1101010101 0101111101 0101100101 100100101 0111110101 0101011101 1101001101 10011110001 1111011111 100101001001 1101010101 1111010011 01010101001 11010010111 0111111111 1101110111 1101000101 0101110111 1111111101 1111110111 1111110101 0111110101 1101111111 1111010111 1011011101 1111111111 1101110101 1111000101 1111111111 1101111101 1111011111 1111011101 1001011101 11110111001 1101001101 11001000101 0111110111 1101011101 1101110111 0101011111 1101001111 11110010111 1001011101 0110111101 1100110111 10010010101 10110101010 1101110101 1111111101 11001010110 1101010101 0101010111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4613
- Average number of words per stanza: 858
- Amount of lines: 106
- 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; his, of, marian, i, thy, my, and, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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