This is an analysis of the poem English Eclogues I - The Old Mansion-House that begins with:
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Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd Edfeeghhi ajkh Ejljh aiejgi Edccfmnjjfodee agjipidddpeacadh Eqdq a i Efgnejddiq akd Egqadg afefeX EjnjhiXjqinfi ae EhcdajhnXreadXjicre adi Emejjcglcqk aqj Eiaiiidhigdljd Xaoiibfbejh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,5,6,14,16,4,1,1,10,3,6,6,13,2,19,3,11,3,14,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10 11111111010 1001111101 1111101111 11 1111010100 0101111111 0011010101 1111011011 1101010001 010000101 1111010011 10001 10 1111010 10010111110 110101 11 1101 1011110111 1101110001 010101 10 11010 0101010101 1001111101 1001101111 1001 11 110111 1110110101 1101010111 01011101001 1111110111 11110100111 1111011111 0111001101 0100110111 1111010111 01010011101 1111011111 1111011101 10 1101011101 0111100101 1101010111 11010010111 11110100010 00101110101 10100001010 10001110101 0111000101 0101010011 11110110010 1011011101 10111101110 100100100101 1111 11 110111 1101110011 0101010111 10 011111 11 1111 1111010101 1011011101 1111010101 0111011101 0111110110 1100110010010 1111111101 0111 10 111011 11110 11 10101 10111111001 0101111100 1011010101 110101 10 1101 1111010100 10001011011 1100011011 01 11 11000010 01011111010 11011011101 1101110011 1110111101 110011111001 1011111111 1101111101 10101111111 111101001011 11110010101 1101100111 10 11011 11 10101 1111110011 1111010111 11110101110 1101010001 00111010101 0101011100 1001000101 1011011101 0111110111 01010101010 1011011101 110111110 01011100101 1111010111 1100010101 1101011111 1111011101 10 1101011101 111101 11 0111 1101010111 1100110111 1100110101 11110101001 10111111011 0101011101 1111111011 0101101101 0101110101 10 11110111101 11 11 11111111 11110101010 10001111010 1101111101 1111011101 0111010101 0111010111 1100110111 0111111101 1110110101 00111111111 1100011101 1101010111 10 11111111010 001011101110 1111001011 01111101110 101010110111 11010111010 0111011101 1011111111 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 184
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, she, her, to, old, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and, she are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word here at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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