This is an analysis of the poem The Siren’s Cave At Tivoli that begins with:

As o'er the chasm I breathless hung,
Thus from the depths the siren sung:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcddedeffffggXddchhihjjddkkllhhcclldd mnhhnmcichchmmkkllccbbbhhnnooommnneeffffhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,42,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101101 10010101 110001 010101 1011 1011 1111 0101 1101 1101 1001 1111 1001 0111 1111 1111 0001010011 11010011111 0101 0101010 11001100010 1110101 1111110111 1011010101 1101101100 1001010101 101101 0101 1011110111 0101010101 0111011011 1001010101 01100011010 01000101010 01011001001 1111010101 10010101 11 101110 01010 110011000101 0110100101 10110101 1111 011101 110101 0111 1101011111 11110101 1101011100 1001 1111 0101 1101 0011011101 1001 1101011011 0111 1001110 1011010 01110 1111110 1101010111 1101011 1000110111 0011010101 0111100101 1011010001 1111110011 1111011101 10011101 110101 11110101 1001 0101 1101 100101 11001 0101001101 1001010101 0111010101 110010111001 1101010101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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