This is an analysis of the poem Aglaia: A Pastoral that begins with:
Sylvan Muses, can ye sing
Of the beauty of the Spring?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeecdeXbbfffXdXggXXhhbbiijjcckklleeccjjccXcddeemmaakkiibbddbbiiccllbbbbkkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 82,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 00100001 1111111 10100111 1110111 1010101 11111001 1111101 111101 1011101 0111111 1111111 1111101 1110100 1011001 1011101 1110101 101111 110101 1100110 1010101 1011100 0110101 1110101 1110111 1010010 1010011 1110101 1011111 01101001 1010101 1111111 10101 1010110 1011110 11101010 11101010 00100110 101101 1010101 001011 1111101 1011100 1001100 1010101 1110111 00101010 10111110 1010111 1010011 1010011 01100101 1111100 1011101 10101001 1010011 1011111 00100001 10101010 10111010 1110101 1111101 1010101 0010101 1010111 1110111 1010001 1011111 10111001 1110101 10111010 10100110 1011101 1111101 1011101 110101 1110111 1011101 111011010 11111010 1010101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2497
- Average number of words per stanza: 476
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; ye, all, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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