This is an analysis of the poem To Phillis The Faire Sheeperdesse that begins with:
My Phillis hath the morninge Sunne,
at first to looke upon her:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXbccccdXaaddee X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1101010 11011101 0101010 110111010 1111110 11010101 11011110 11011101 0111110 0111010 1101110 111111 100111 1111100 0111010 1101111 1001011 10010111011 10011110111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; it, her, she are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, me are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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