This is an analysis of the poem A Sweet Pastoral that begins with:
Good Muse, rock me asleep
With some sweet harmony;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd efef ghdh ijij klkl lXlX dldl gldl Xkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 011100 01010101 110100 111001 1101100 10011001 110100 111101 110111 11110101 100101 010101 101111 11110101 110101 010101 110101 01011111 110111 110001 1101001 11011101 010001 0101101 1111010 11000111 0100010 111101 111001 11010101 001101 111111 1101101 111100101 011111 100110 111011 10111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Sweet Pastoral;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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