This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral Ballad Iv: Disappointment that begins with:
Ye shepherds give ear to my lay,
And take no more heed of my sheep: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdceaeafgfgcfcfcacaehehca cahihiececjajadcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 11111011 111001101 111001101 11111010 111111010 11111111 101011101 01111011 01011001 101110101 101101011 11101101 01001001 101001101 111001001 101011101 111001101 11001101 101001101 01111001 011011001 00111001 11111010 01001111 11011011 111001001 01101101 11101001 01101101 111101001 01111011 01001101 01001001 01101011 11101001 10111001 111101011 11001101 11011011 111111001 011010011 111001001 111001001 111111101 001101010 111111111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 866
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, she, and, how, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, perhaps, the, i are repeated.
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