This is an analysis of the poem Verses From The Shepherds' Hymn that begins with:
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest,
Young dawn of our eternal day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa cdcdee afafff cgcggg Xchcii jgjgcc kbkbhh hhhhbX Xghgll mhmhhk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101101 11010101 11111001 110100101 11111101 11111111 11111111 110101010 00011101 111111010 0101001011 01011011 11111110 11010101 01010101 101010001 011110001 10111111 11011111 1100100101 10110101 11001101 10110111 11011111 1110100100 110101001 11111111 110011101 11111111 11110111 111111101 10010101 11110111 11010101 11111111 10111101 11110111 11001101 11011011 10111101 11110101 01001101 10110111 101110101 10010101 10110111 1111111100 11010100 11110101 1101011 110110010 11111111 01111111 01011111 01110011 11010111 1010101 1010101 110100111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; we, thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, to, each are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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