This is an analysis of the poem Shepherd And Goatherd that begins with:
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year.
I wished before it ceased.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bccdabef eXfgfdh gi bgjk lh cc hdkh ma Xkncommp nbdkidnm ojkbdbo fagkfnXfah n cfhq h hchhchchghhcX pjff ihhh kjk Xbpm iq h kkkkkkoXXfkkbbddnnkkkkdXXnalakmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,7,2,4,2,2,4,2,8,8,7,10,1,4,1,13,4,4,3,4,2,1,32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101100111001 110101 101111 1111110101 10111010111 1110011100 1011111111 1001010111 1111101111 0101 101110111 1011011011 1101110101 11110101010 1101111111 111010010001 011101 101111 1110010001 1011110100101 11001011011 11000111101 01 100111111 1011 101110101 1100110101 1011101010111 1111011100 0100001111 10010 101100010 1011110101 101111011010 10 1111011101 01001011111 11111101110 11011101010 1101011100 1001010101 101101010111 0101010101 111111110101 01001110101 1101111011 1111110101 1011011101 1011110 10111 1111110011 0101110011 1111110111 1101110011 1101000100 11010 10110111 1101110111 11000111110 1111110101 11001111010 1101100101 111101100011 1101111101 1100111101 01000111011 101110101 101111 1111110111 11010110011 11010011010 11 10010111 1001101 1110111 101011111 1110111 11001011 00110101 11001011 00110101 0101011 11100111 1111101 1111001 1011111001001 1111110011 1001111111 1101010011 101111110101 11101011011 10110011001 111101010 1001 11011011001 1101111101 10110101111 1 110010111 110 101111011 111101111110 1 111010010 10101110 11101 0101111 10010111 1110101 10100 00110 1100101 01111101 011111 0010111 111101001 11010101 110111 10101 11010011 11110101 101101 1100001 110010101 11011101 110101 0101000 101111111011 0001100111 1111110111 1111110101 01010101011 10010101110 11011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 134
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, her, in, no, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, of are repeated.
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