You Gote-Heard Gods by Sir Philip Sidney: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Gote-Heard Gods that begins with:

Strephon.
You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXaX X XXaXXX X XXXXXa X aXXXXX X XaXXXX X XXXaXX X XXXXaX X XXaXXX X XXXXXa X aXXXXX X XaXXXX X XXXaXX X XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 11111101100 1101100101010 11010111010 101101001010 10111111010 110010111010 1 1101000010 1110001100 1110100010 11111111010 101101001010 111101000110 10 1111110010 11011111110 11110111010 110101010100 01101101010 11011011110 1 11110101010 10011000010 11110100110 11011111010 11011100011100 11010101010 10 11011101010 11010100010 1101011010100 11111100110 111111010110 11101011010 1 1101100110 11111101010 1101101110010 11110111010 11111111010 11111111100 10 1101101110100 10100011010 11011011110 0100011010110 110110100010 10010010110 1 1101101110 111101010100 110110101010 11110100110 110111111110 01010101010 10 110100101110 11010111110 11010101010 0111101100 10010101010 11011101110 1 1011110010 110011101010 11111101010 11110101110 11111010100 111101111010 10 11111000110 1111101010 1101101010100 01010100010 11110010010 110011001110 1 110101010110 111110010110 11010110010 11111001010 01010111010 100101110100 101 110010111110 11011101110 11010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, o, that, me, i, my, more, these are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, o, long, i, my, these are repeated.

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