This is an analysis of the poem The Faithless Shepherdess that begins with:
WHILE that the sun with his beams hot
Scorched the fruits in vale and mountain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccDDD aefeccDDD cXcfbbDDD ffffbbDDD XeXgbedgaahffhccicci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010011 100101110 10010101 100101010 11100111 10010111 011011011 011011011 110111111 11111011 111111110 11011111 100101110 111011101 10110101 011011011 011011011 110111111 01010101 111111100 11111101 11111101 11011101 11011110 011011011 011011011 110111111 11111101 11111101 01110101 111111010 11111111 11010110 011011011 011011011 110111111 1111 101010 101010 10101 11101 111010 11101 11101 10101 10101 1010101 10111 10111 1011101 111011 111011 1111101 111011 111011 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love, untrue, adieu, your, soon, like, youth, age are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words full, youth are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, thee are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Faithless Shepherdess;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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