To The Sighing Strephon by George Gordon Byron: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To The Sighing Strephon that begins with:

Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend;
Your pardon, a thousand times o'er:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb acdX daca eeXf Xghg ebXb Xibi dchcXfaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011011001 110010110 0101111001 111101111 11100111101 11111001 11101111101 00100110 11111111011 011011101 1111111111 111111001 101101001001 111000101 101101111111 1100110111 1111110010 11111001 0110010110010 111011001 10101101001 01001001 101101101110 11101001 11101111101 01001001 00111111011 11011101 101111001011 11011111 1110111110 110110001 1100111001 11001101 1111101101 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.

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