This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Week : Wednesday; Or, The Dumps that begins with:
Sparabella.
The wailings of a maiden I recite,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaabbccddddXeffXgggggddhhggddddgXiiddddjjkXGXllbbaallddaaffffGXggmmllggffbbGXddddhhkkGXkkggggeeXdffkkdXffhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 111,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000 0100010101 0101110001 1111000101 1011111101 11110010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101000101 0111011111 1101011101 1011110001 1011111101 1101010110 1100100111 1111011101 11010101001 1101110101 0111010101 1011100101 1101110101 0101110001 0101110101 1100010101 0101011111 1101110101 0011010101 1111110111 0100010001 01010100101 11110010011 1011111111 1101110101 11010101001 1111010101 1101000101 1011011101 01001110101 1001011111 0101111101 0101010101 010110111110 01010101010 1100010101 0111010101 1111000101 1111010101 1101110011 11110001001 1100110101 1011101101 11010101001 10110010101 0110010101 11001011101 1101010111 11011100001 1111010111 0101110001 1011010101 1101100101 1111010101 0101010101 1111000101 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 0111010001 1111110101 1111111101 1001010101 0011110101 11010100101 11110100101 1111011001 1111011101 1101110101 1111000101 1111010101 1111110110 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 01010010001 1111010101 01001010101 1111000101 1111010101 1111111111 0101111011 0101110101 1111110111 1011010101 11001110101 1110011011 10111100101 11010100101 1101011111 1101111111 1101011111 1101011111 1111000101 1101110101 1111011111 0111011101 1101100101 0111011101 1011010101 0101010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4847
- Average number of words per stanza: 891
- Amount of lines: 111
- 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; nor, no, with, at, and, my, son, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, whether, the, and are repeated.
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