This is an analysis of the poem The Wyeside Sister's Song that begins with:

Come to the Wyeside ! come with me !
Unhappy here thou canst but be ; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffff Xegg ddee hhaa eegg ffXe iihh eeaa aajj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 01011110 11010101 10011101 01010101 11011101 100111011 11010101 01110111 101010111 111111010 11011101 01011111 11011111 11010101 11110101 111101001 11110111 11011111 11110111 01011101 11111101 01110110 110110101 11011101 01011101 11011101 01111111 101010101 1101010001 11111111 11111101 01010111 11110101 11010111 11010101 01011101 11011101 11111111 11110101 11111101 11011101 11110111 01111101 10010101 11010111 11011101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The author used the same words the, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Wyeside Sister's Song;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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