This is an analysis of the poem Helen Of Tyre that begins with:

What phantom is this that appears
Through the purple mist of the years,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXba ccXccX ddebbe ffdcXX ddaaXa ggeeeeXaaceec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 10101000 0110111 010011010 001001001 01001001 1101101 01001101 1010111 11011001 1111101 11010000 10101001 101001101 0111001 00101001 11111001 0111001 11100101 00101011 10111111 110110 11001110 001001000 1110101 0010101 110101 10100101 011111100 1010101 11100101 0101001 10101101 11100001 1101111 0110001 11001001 0110101 1101111 1110111 01001101 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, and, he, thy are repeated.

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

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