This is an analysis of the poem From Vergil's Tenth Eclogue that begins with:
Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verse
Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababbbbcbdecefdaXaXdbX fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010001011 1111010011 1011010111 1001011101 0100010111 1000010101 0111011101 0110111101 0101010101 1110010111 01001110 11011111 1011010101 1101110011 1111010111 1010001 0101010101 0101010100 011010111 1101010100 1100010101 1101011111 101100 1100010111 01010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1005
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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