This is an analysis of the poem Elegiac Stanzas that begins with:
Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells,
Rude Nature's Pilgrims did we go, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaX daccda aeffae gfccgf edaaed dchhXc dijjdi fabbfa aekkae edaaed abddab idccid ilddXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 11010011 00110001 01010101 10010101 10100010 01110111 100111010 10010101 01011101 010011101 0101010 11011111 01010101 11011101 11110111 010101001 010101 01111101 01111111 10011101 11011111 11000101 011101 11011101 01110101 11111101 0100100101 11001111 111101 11110111 10011101 11110111 01110101 010111000 0100110 11001101 1100101001 11110101 11010101 11001111 1101001 110001001 111110111 11010101 01010101 11110101 010101 0101100101 11010101 10010001 11010101 10111101 111001 110111001 01010101 11011111 11110111 01010001 010101 11010101 010101001 11110101 010110101 110101001 110101 01010111 11000101 11001101 11110101 10110111 111111 11110111 110101010 010001001 01010111 01010100 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, but, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, fetch, what, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Elegiac Stanzas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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