This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Wife's Song that begins with:
Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccCcC ddbee ddBff Xcbgg hcbii jjBhhCcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,5,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1110010101 1101 1111110101 1111010101 1111 01011101011 1101110101 0111011111 1101010001 11001 11100101010 11010101010 1101111101 0111110101 1101 1111011111 1101110011 0111110111 10010100001 1101 1111010101 1101110111 0101011111 1101010101 1101 1111111101 1101011111 1001110111 11011100111 1101 1111110101 1101110101 1111 11011101011 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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.
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