This is an analysis of the poem Eclogue 2: Alexis that begins with:
The shepherd Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis, his own master's joy:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdceeXafgeahffaibajkbejXjbXbiXljabffimfgggXbalbXbfckeXfemhfdchiXcaXafekjggmmXfjkfdgjecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 89,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010001110 1101001101 1111111101 011010010111 1111110111 0111110101 101011111 11110111011 11001010101 1011011001 11101000111 11000101001 1111010101 1110010101 1111110101 10110100101 0101011001 01011111111 1111010101 1101110011 11101011111 1101110111 0111010111 11010010101 1011011111 111110011 1111010101 1101000111 1101110101 1111111101 1011011111 1001011001 1011100101 1101001111 1101101101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1101110111 1001111011 1101111101 1010011011 0111011110 01001100101 11011111101 1010011101 1111111101 0011011101 0011010101 1111111100 0111010101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010111 1011001101 1011001010 1101011101 01001110101 10110101011 0101011101 101100100101 1011010101 1101100111 11010101101 11110111101 1111110100 1101110111 010111101 1101011010 11001110111 11010100011 10110111001 11110101111 11010110111 11010100111 1011110101 011100101 0101101101 01010100100 1100010111 1111010111 0111010111 0111000101 1111111101 110010011111 1111110101 11110111010 0101110110 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3893
- Average number of words per stanza: 722
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, to, pan, and, you, ye, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pan connects the lines.
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