This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas To Cynthio that begins with:
As o'er the sands the youthful Cynthio strayed,
Moist from the wave he saw a pebble shine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dede afaf bbbb gcgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010101 1001110101 1001110111 100001001010100 11011101001 1011010111 1101000101 1101000101 0111011111 1011010101 01010010001 11010010101 11001010111 01010101010 1101010101 10010101010 1001010101 1101100111 1101000101 1101110101 010011101001 0101111111 1111110101 01011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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