This is an analysis of the poem Mrs Eliz: Wheeler, Under The Name Of Thelost Shepherdess that begins with:
Among the myrtles as I walk'd
Love and my sighs thus intertalk'd:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXbbccddeeeeccccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 111111000 11110101 11111100 11111110 010011110 01010111 11110111 011000101 111101001 01011101 11010001 11111101 11010111 0101110 11010101 11111110 01010001 111101111 10010011 111100110 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 779
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; i, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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