This is an analysis of A Pastoral Betwixt David, Thirsis, And The Angel Gabriel, Upon The Birth Of Our Saviour by James Thomson.
DAVID.
What means yon apparition in the sky,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccdd Xee fggeehh ccbcX ahhccffiigg Xddbbffjjgg
- Stanza lengths: 9,3,7,5,11,11,
- Metre: 10 1111010001 10110100101 110011011001 11010100111 010100111010 1001011101 0101010001 1101011101 10 1111010101 1101110101 10100 0111010101 0101110101 0101010101 11010010101 1001011111 100101011101 10010 01100101 010100 11000101 010100 10 1101110101 100010001001 0101110111 11001110101 0101101101 0111110101 1111110101 11010111001 110100101 010011101 10 1101110101 11010010101 1111000101 11010010001 1111110001 1110010101 1001010101 0111001101 1101011101 1011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
our, to
Anaphora
with, the
