This is an analysis of the poem Whilst Shepherds Watch'D that begins with:
Whilst Shepherds watch'd their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaacadbabaaXaXcecdebeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 110101 01000111 110101 11111101 111101 11001111 011111 01010101 010101 01010101 101001 010011111 010101 11010101 100101 11010111 0101001 01010111 011101 11000111 100101 00110101 011101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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