This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral. that begins with:
Sweet birds! that sit and sing among the shady valleys,
And see how sweetly Phyllis walks amid her garden alleys,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddcaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101010 111101010101010 11010101111110 000101011001010 110111110101 11011101110101 110101110101 11010101110101 110111011100 11010101011100 1111111101100 111111100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, his, that, never, you, on, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines voice is repeated).
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