This is an analysis of the poem English Eclogues Iv - The Sailor's Mother that begins with:

WOMAN.
Sir for the love of God some small relief... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba cdefgaeh aiXdhgf chddaj akhlm cehhhnjdg ahhkiod cha ajelfepidad cpqhabgggdea ajXd cd aaXffieblaralf cqrmmo abjhhdblhhklmrdXcjkm chc aiearfaoXnaXgdolchor cheh amddhhdfkom cheghh Xahehhc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,7,6,5,9,7,3,11,12,4,2,14,6,20,3,20,4,11,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10 1101011101 00110 100 10111 101100101011 11110011101 10110101010 1111010101 1011011111 11100101 10 11 11011111001 10111111101 10101011111 111101001110 0011111111 100 1111010111 0101111101 0101111111 1100110101 111011 10 11110 0111110101 00110100110 101111 100 0111 11011000101 1101011101 1111111101 0111111101 010001001111 1001110101 1011010 10 111 1111111101 110101111 1111111101 1111111101 00110 100 10011 0101001101 10 11111111000 1101011001 1101000110 11110101111 1111110101 1101111101 0101011111 1011111001 1011011101 010101 100 1111 1001111111 00010010001 11000111110 1001011110 1010100100 01010111010 0101000100 0101110101 1001010001 0101010 10 1010 1100011011 1100111111 100 111101 10 1101 0111001100 0101111101 11101101011 1101011111 0001110110 1011110101 11011110110 1101011011 1011010011 1111110101 1111011111 111111 100 0001 0111011011 0101110001 10111100111 1010010101 10 1111011101 0010111101 1100011101110 1100010111 0101101101 1101010101 1101011101 1110111101 11110010111 01011111110 1011011101 1011111101 1101011111 01011100101 11111110010 0111011100 110100101010 01111011010 1111110 100 1110 1100010 10 1111 1111110101 001111111001 11101011111 0101010111 1001010101 1111110100 0101010100 1101011111 1001011100 1100011101 1101110100 1111010111 0101110111 1101000101 10111111110 1111011111 0101111101 010101 100 0111 1101111101 0110110100 10 11111111011 1101101111 0111101101 1001110111 1101111001 0101011111 01101101101 1101011111 1101010101 111111 100 11110 1001010011 11111100010 10110101010 011101 10 1111 11010010100 11101111010 1101011001 01011011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words will, god, i, as, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word child at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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