This is an analysis of the poem Town Eclogues: Wednesday that begins with:

DANCINDA.
" NO, fair DANCINDA, no ; you strive in vain... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabX XcddddaaeeccbbffaaggeegghhggXchhii ddjjkkccddeehh cckk llmmjjbbeeaakkaa kkee ddjjaa aakkXcceeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,34,14,4,16,4,6,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100 11110011101 10111110111 10111111101 1111101010100 1101100110 1111010111 1111010111 1111000101 1101011101 1111101101 1101101101 1101011101 1101011101 110111110011 1101010101 1101010011 1101110111 1101010111 1111011101 1111110111 1011010111 1111110101 1111110101 1101110101 1111110101 1111011101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010011 1101010101 1110110001 11010101101 1101010100 1101111101 0111010011 1111010111 11010011010 1110001010 1101011001 1101011001 1111011101 1101010111 1111100101 10101010111 1101110101 0101000101 1011010001 1101110101 0101101101 0101110111 1101010101 1101000101 10001010001 1111110101 1101110101 1101111101 1101010011 1111010001 11010110101 1111010101 1001111110 1100110101 0101011111 1110010101 0101110101 0111011101 1101111111 0101011101 10111101001 1111100101 0001011101 0111001101 1111010111 1011110101 1111011101 1001110101 1100110101 0101011101 1001111101 0101000101 1101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1101011101 1001111111 11001110101 01001011001 1011011111 0101000101 0101110101 0101010101 1101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • 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; my, you, i, your, to, thy, his are repeated.

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

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