This is an analysis of The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk by Gilbert White.
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire.
... equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XXX bbccddeeffggeecccchheehhccgXiihhfffXiiaXhhccXh
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,46,
- Metre: 0101011 1001011100010 100 110 1101010101 1101110111 1011110101 11010011101 1001011001 1100010101 01010010101 1011010101 0101010101 0100010101 0101010101 1101010001 1001111101 1011010101 1101111101 10111010101 1101011101 0101001101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101011101 0101011101 0101101101 0101011101 0101010001 110011000111 101110010010 1101110101 01011000101 11010100101 0101010101 1101010101 11001110101 1101111110 01001110101 0111110101 1101010101 0101110101 110111010010 1111110101 1001010111 10010111001 0101000101 111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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