This is an analysis of the poem Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon that begins with:
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xab X ccdbee Xfgh Xie Xehchj XgchgXX X chff XXhfk X kjlXgc XaieemdXfkkhnfghC XXXhhCd Xnofdb Xegkh Xhcbpfb XkX XdX XcX XcX XhX XcX XhaX XfhX XhdX XgnX XelX XplX XnlX XefX XaaX XoXX XgfX XegX XboX XheX XXnX XlXX XXfX XbhX Xncomk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,6,4,3,6,7,1,4,5,1,6,17,7,6,5,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 1101100100 100 1111010111 010011 100 11001 0101010111 111010101 11110100101 1101110001 1001100111 100 1111001111 1111101101 0111010111 100 1111011111 1011110101 100 1111110111 01110010111 1111010001 1110011111 1111011101 100 0111011101 0111110111 1101111001 1111101101 1011010100 1101010 100 111 1111010101 1001011111 1111010111 100 1111111101 1100011111 1101110001 010 100 1111111 1011011101 11010100111 1001011110 1111010111 1101010101 100 1001110111 1101010111 1101110101 1110011101 1011111110 0111011101 1001101000 1101100101 10101010101 101010010101 11011000111 1111111001 11111011010 1111110101 11110010111 1111001101 100 1111011000 01011101010 10100100001 01010000111 1111001101 1001011101 100 11111110011 1100110111 1100110111 1010010101 1111010011 100 1101111111 1111011011 1010001111 1001110111 100 1111101011 1101001111 1001011101 1101111001 1110001001 1001100101 100 1101011101 10110111110 100 1101110011 1111010011 100 11010111011 11001110001 100 11100110001 1100110101 100 1111111111 1011011101 100 1101011111 111101011010 100 1101110111 1101011100 1111110101 100 1100111001 1011011111 0111011101 100 11011111 1111011011 11110110110 100 1110110111 110010110011 110010111 100 1101000101 1011100001 0101010001 100 1100010101 11111000101 1110011101 100 1111101101 0111001101 1101011101 100 1001111101 1101110101 1100010101 100 11110011101 1111010111 1101011101 100 1111011101 11110111000 1100011111 100 11010111011 1101111111 1011010001 100 1011011101 1101010101 01011101010 100 10011100101 1101011111 0101110001 100 1111010001 1100011001 1001110111 100 11110101001 1010110111 0001111111 100 1101010101 11010111010 11011101100 100 1011111010 11010011010 1011011101 100 10110111011 0101011101 1111110111 100 1101110001 1101010111 0111010101 1101001111 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 190
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, and, now, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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