This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said that begins with:
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said,
"Bright is thy veil, O Moon, as thou art bright!" ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXababbaabaXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010101 100111111110 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 01010001001 1001000101 010100010 1111011101 11000100101 1011010101 0101000100 1101100110 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her is repeated.
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