This is an analysis of the poem A Divine Pastorall that begins with:
Strephon & I upon a bank were laid,
Where the gay spring in varied colours playd,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcdXeff ddggaaHh aaXcccHH iiXiihhHH eeiibbHH XejjbbcD ffkkaXcdcD bbhhcD kkkjjXaXeejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,8,9,8,8,10,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101 10101010101 011010101 1101101101 1111010101 1000111011 1100110101 1101010101 11010101101 1111010111 0101000101 110111101 110101101 110111101 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1001110101 1101011101 111010101 1011010101 11110010110 1111011111 1101011011 0101001101 1001110101 1101011101 110110111 0111010001 1101110111 1111000101 10010010101 1011010101 1101011101 1001110101 1101011101 11010101001 011100101 1101010111 101111101 1111011111 10010110101 1001110101 1101011101 0100101001 1011101101 1001111101 111101101 111101111 110001011101 11111110001 0101000101 0101010110 100101011 1101011001 0101111101 1111010011 111111011 1111110001 1101111111 11111110001 0101000101 1111010101 1111011111 1111110101 1100100111 11111110001 0101000101 1101111101 1111111101 111001101 110111001 1101111101 1101110110 1101010001 1111011101 0111010001 0101110101 11011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ye, they, their, i, my, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, let, mean, thus, the are repeated.
The author used the same word ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words song, praise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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