This is an analysis of the poem English Eclogues Ii - The Grandmother's Tale that begins with:

JANE.
Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eXfg ah gffbXb aXib gajbk eg gk eh gbgikilfkki ekag gkkcmcgbnoa aa glekdcchdb ed gXmbiXhbihXdebiiidgahna am ea gXbbabcbhjbidgbhabimodc ea Xgakbchbah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,6,4,5,2,2,2,11,4,11,2,10,2,23,2,2,23,2,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010010111 010110001011 10010 10 11100 0101010101 01010 1 10101 110 1111110111 0101111101 010100111110 01011101010 111101 1 1100 11101011011 1111010 110 1110 1111110111 0110111010010 010111 10 11010 110 11110110010 10 111111 110 1111 1101010100 11010010111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010111 0100111111 1111010001 10110010111 11110 10 11111 01010011010 1100 110 100111 1111011101 0001110101 1111110111 0111111101 1101010100 11011101010 11010111010 1110011101 11011101010 1 1111010 110 101 11010111010 11011111010 110011101110 1101110101 1001111101 1010110111 110100100010 1111110 10 0010 110 1111011111 11010010011 1101011110 0011010100 0111110101 1101110111 0111111111 110101110010 1100111101 0101001001 1101011101 1011010100 1101011111 110011111011 1001111101 01110001001 0001011101 11110101010 1110110111 1100010011 0101001101 110101 1 1111 10 111101 110 1111 1111111101 1111110011 1110011111 01010100111 1100011101 11111100101 010111101001 0101010111 1101000101 10110011011 0101010001 01011111010 1111111101 01011000101 0101110011 11010100111 0101110101 0100111111 1101011101 0111001101 0101010 10 1111 110 11100001101 11010111010 1111111101 110100011 1111111101 1101011101 1101011111 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; you, and, to, her, all, she, in, he, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, to, and are repeated.

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

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