This is an analysis of the poem An Eclogue that begins with:
Now early shepheards ore ye meadow pass,
And print long foot-steps in the glittering grass;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddeeffggdd hhXbii ddjjhhkkll agaaccbbll iillXXXkgg llcccceeggkkkkCc llccggggbbllkkmmCC cckkeegXkkddccXbddiicCXhhkkll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,6,10,10,10,16,18,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 11111001001 0110010101 11010000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 01010101001 1111000101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010001 1110010101 1110110101 1101010111 01001110101 1101110101 1101011101 0101011101 11010010110 1101010101 1101110101 11110110001 1101111001 1101010101 1111110101 1101000101 0111110101 0101010111 1101011101 0111010101 1111111111 1101011001 1101011101 1111010101 1111011101 0101010101 1101111101 1111010101 0101100101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1101001101 1111011001 100101101 0111010101 1011111111 111100111 0110010111 1111011101 110101011 110111101 1011110101 0101011111 1011010101 0111010101 1101000101 1011000101 1101010101 01110010011 1101010101 1101110101 01001010101 1101010001 1011110101 0101010111 1101111101 1111111101 1101111101 1011010101 1111010101 1101000101 010110101 11010001001 1101011101 0110010101 1111110101 1101001101 1101011101 1101110111 0111111101 0111111101 1111010111 111010101 1101111101 1011111101 11110100101 1101000101 1011111101 1111110011 1101010101 1111000111 01011101001 1101010001 1101100101 1101010101 1101001101 0111000101 1111010101 1101010111 0101011101 01010010101 1101110001 1101010101 0101011001 1101010101 1101111101 1011111101 1101111111 0111010101 1101100001 101000101 0101110101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; she, her, of, my, i, to, in, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words thee, again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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