This is an analysis of the poem English Eclogues Vi - The Ruined Cottage that begins with:

Aye Charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye,
This woodbine wreathing round the broken porch,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgahdhbijhgkjlgalhmXmXlmnngXmfXbafoojemaogmmicacjmgoodomookcjejoljmfblhXjeoXnmjifflihoomnmpe XgfojjmmpXnXjajja
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 97,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011101111 0101010101 011100111010 1111011101 1101011101 1101100101 1001110111 1001010100001 11001110101 1111110011 1001110101 1011010101 1011110101 110000110001 1111111101 1101010101 1101010101 010001 1111 10101011010 110011011101 11010100101 0101000101 1111011111 101101010 10010001001 1100101100 0101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010011 1100011111 0111110100 01011110101 01011101100 11011111010 1100010101 01010111101 10010101001 1111110101 1101010101 00110101010 1001010101 1101011100 1110001101 111001 01010 1001011011 1111110101 0101010101 1011010100 10110011011 11000110110 1001111100 0101011101 010100110010 1111010101 01010110111 01010010001 01010110001 10011001001 0101010111 0101010011 1101110111 1100110 1001 1110010111 01010010100 0101011101 1100011101 01111001001 1101010111 110100101110 0100111101 010100110001 0111010100 1001011111 11111011010 1111110101 1011100101 01001110100 0101011101 01011100111 1101110101 1101011011 10101110111 111111 1101 110110101 0111010101 0011011101 1001010011 11011100101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010011 11010110100 0101110001 1101011100 0111110111 1101010101 01010001010 0101010101 1101011111 0101101101 0111010101 1011010001 1101010101 1101010101 01010101010 1100110101 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 283
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, i, her, as are repeated.

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

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