This is an analysis of the poem Lost Shepherd that begins with:
Ah me! How hard is destiny!
If we could only know. . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececfgfg fhfhiXih jkjkbebe kikalXlX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110100 011101 11110100 010001 110101101 0101110 11000101 0101010 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 11110101 1101010 11010101 1101110 111100001 1001010 01010011 1101010 11010111 0111010 10110111 1110010 01011001 111001 11010101 1101101 100111101 0101011 11110011 010101 01011101 111101 01010101 010100 11110101 111101 11110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; to, him, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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