This is an analysis of the poem Come Down, O Maid that begins with:

COME down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang), ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeXdfbcgbdcbbdhXXgebXfhadbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 0111010001 11011101011 0101110101 01010101001 1111000101 1100010111 1111010111 1101010001 1101010001 1100011101 0111010101 1111100101 1111010101 11001010101 0101010101 1101010111 0110010101 1101010111 0101010111 11010100101 1101010101 1111111101 0111010001 0101010111 11011101001 10111100101 100100100101 01010101001 11000010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; height, come, or, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, or, nor are repeated.

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