This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral Dialogue that begins with:
DERMOT, SHEELAH
A Nymph and swain, Sheelah and Dermot hight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccXdee b Xbbb a ffdd b ggbb a hhbb b iijj a XXkk b jjff a llXc b hhee a hhjj b Xccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010 0111101101 1101010101 110110101 1101011101 1111110100 01001011101 11001010101 0110000111 10 1101001101 1101111101 1111000111 1111011011 10 1111010101 1111110011 1101110111 1101010101 10 11110110111 1101011101 1101110101 0101010101 10 1101011101 0101111111 1111111101 1011110111 10 11110111001 1011100111 0101010011 0101011101 10 0101010111 1001010111 1011111101 1111110101 10 1111011101 11110110111 1111010001 1111100111 10 1101010101 1111110101 1011111101 1111010011 10 0101111001 0111011101 1011010101 1101110101 10 1011110111 11011100111 1111110111 1111110111 10 1111111101 01010011101 1111000101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, my, and, you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word dermot at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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