This is an analysis of the poem Amarantha. A Pastorall that begins with:

Up with the jolly bird of light
Who sounds his third retreat to night;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcdbbaacceeXfgXhXiiXfhhjjXefXXXXXdcgXiXXhXckkllXeddaammXabbXhnnoohhXcXXccccbbhXnnoobbXippXXcXccaahfffeeppaaaaooeeiihXpXeXbbaaqqeXXXccXXggXXXXXrbbeeaapXaahhiibbaaXioohXcXXXXXdcXXXcbbXXpXaaccbbaaXrmmXibbffXXmXggrrcdiXcceehhjjeeqrXXdcrraXddhhnncccssXomm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 384,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 11010101 11000001 0111101 10010101 11010111 11110111 01000100 1000101101 001000101 11011111 11101100 11001111 10111001 01110001 11010001 11011001 11000111 10110011 01100001 1100010010 1010110 11010101 10001001 010100111 11111101 11101001 11001001 1011101 110010001 010101111 11010111 11011101 11111100 11010111 10010101 1100101110 010101010 11011100 10010111 00010011 1110100 01011101 10100101 101111010 11101111 01001110 10111101 11000101 01010101 11111101 11001011 0101000 1100011011 1101001110 110101010 1011001 11011001 01001111 11110111 01010010 1100011001 001111001 10011101 111100100 110101101 1011101 11011111 0101111010 110001010 10110101 1001001 1000101000 110111000 10011101 01111001 111101001 11000001 11000001 11111111 01010101 11001111 11011101 11000111 0101101 111100101 100100010 01001110 10010011 01111101 010101101 11000101 10010111 011111001 0010110 00100010 11000101 1111000 11110101 11010101 1111101 01011101 11011101 11110101 10011111 01110111 01001101 010101001 100100111 01011001 11010101 11011101 11010111 1001101 011101010 011111010 10010101 1101011 11010001 10010101 01010101 01011100 01010011 01010110 01111101 01111110 0110010101 11110001 10010101 11011101 110111001 10010101 00010111 11010111 11110101 11010011 111100001 00110101 0101010110 01110010 11110111 11110101 01010101 11000101 110001010 100100010 010100101 00110101 00010001 11110111 01010001 11111101 01010101 11010101 01110001 10110100 10010011 10100101 01010101 01010110 11110001 11011111 11000101 010100101 111001 10011101 10010111 01010001 11111110 111101010 110100101 110101100 010100001 11100001 110101100 010111000 1111001001 11111110 110101100 11101100 11011001 11011101 11111101 11111101 110100111 11111101 111101000 010111110 11110111 10110100 11110111 111010101 11110111 111111111 10110111 11011101 11010011 1100101101 11010010 10011111 10011101 11011011 11000111 11110101 11100111 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110110 11111101 11010101 11111111 11011101 10010101 10110001 11110011 10110111 01010100 11011111 1101100011 11110111 11111001 11100101 10010101 11111001 10011111 01010011 11110001 11011011 01011111 11101101 11011101 110101110 01110101 11011100 10111110 01011111 10011011 10011101 111100111 10111100 11110100 01101101 10110101 01111101 11010001 10011111 01111101 11100101 11000101 10001101 11010011 11000100 01100101 01011011 11011111 11011101 11110111 11111101 10010110 11010100 11010101 11111101 11100100 010110101 11010001 11010110 01010101 11010100 10111111 011100100 11010011 11110111 10100101 10110101 110101010 010110010 100101011 11110011 101100101 11001101 11111111 11111100 11110101 11111111 01000100 10011101 10010001 01110101 01010100 01011111 110101001 1101010 010011101 1101101 11011001 10010001 11010101 11001101 101011101 1110000101 11111101 100111111 11010101 111101001 110101010 110110010 10000101 10100100 10111111 00111101 11001101 11011101 01010101 11101101 111010101 11010001 11000101 11111111 11110101 111100011 100010001 01011011 11010101 10001101 010011101 110110011 01010100 11110111 11011101 111011010 110101100 0100010 1101010 11010111 01101001 11010111 11010111 001101011 11001101 11110111 01111011 1101110 010110001 11000111 110010010 011101100 11111111 11100101 10010101 01010101 11111111 111101010 100101010 110100011 110011101 11011110 01110111 100101110 11001101 11010101 10001111 11100111 11000100 01111011 010010110 01100101 11010101 11110101 10010101 110101000 11010100 110001001 01110111 10110101 10010101 111101100 110001101 11010111 11011101 10110111 11110011 11010101 110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 13576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2440
  • Amount of lines: 384
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, their, her, to, with, at, his, my, and, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, to, with, what, and, as, lucasta, whilst, his, or are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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