This is an analysis of the poem Britannia's Pastorals that begins with:
Now as an angler melancholy standing
Upon a green bank yielding room for landing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddggXfXXddgghhiiggjjggbbXgkkeXaXbbllmmbbmmggaammbbmXcckkiiXXeennoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101010 01011101110 0101011101 1001111001 1101110001 1001111101 111100011 1101011111 1101110101 1100010101 1101111101 10001110101 1101110101 11000111111 11001110111 1101011001 1001011101 1111011101 1001110101 0111110101 100010101101 11011100011 1101110101 1101100101 10010111010 01011111010 1101010111 1011110011 1101011101 1101010101 1111010101 011100101 1101110111 1101010101 0111010101 1101011001 1101011110 0101110101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010100 01100111010 01010101010 1001110101 1101010011 1101010111 0111011101 1001010101 0101100101 1001010101 0101010111 0101110101 0110011011 1101010001 1001010101 11010101110 10010111010 1011110101 0101101101 1101010111 1101100101 10011001010 110100111010 01110010111 1101010101 0111010101 1101111101 0101111111 0101011101 011111001010 01010111110 1101010101 1001111001 1111011111 1101011101 1100110101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3432
- Average number of words per stanza: 652
- Amount of lines: 78
- 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; to, him, his, with, and, from, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Britannia's Pastorals;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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