This is an analysis of the poem The Siren that begins with:
Dear, O homeland, and dear, O sweet land of mine,
Dear, yea, very dear, O land of my birth;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbcc ddee ffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111101 1110111011 11111011110 0011101101101 100111010100111 011101110101001 11010101010111 01010101010101 11010100011111 110100101010111 11000101111001 11011101011011 010101111111010 100110111101110 11111101111101 1100001010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, dear, o, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dear, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Siren;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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