This is an analysis of the poem Salmacis And Hermaphroditus that begins with:

HOW Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
Softens the body, and unnerves the limbs, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdddeeffeeeeeaagggddbbhXaXggddaagg eecciieegghX jjaaeeddhhbXXkbbXcddeekkaaaaa ggggddaaaahhhhaaiigggXbeebbggg ddggbbccbbb hXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,35,12,29,30,11,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100011001 10010110001 1101011101 01010100101 011110101 1101010101 010010010001 0111110101 1011010101 1010010101 0111110101 1111000101 0101000101 0101010111 1111010101 0101111101 0101000101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 11010010101 0101010101 11001010101 01011100001 1101011101 0101110001 0101000101 0101011111 1100111101 1111011101 11010100110 1111000101 1001010101 1001011101 1101000101 11011110001 11010110101 11111100111 0101111111 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101000101 1111111101 0110010101 1001011101 1111011101 1111111111 1101010111 01110100100 0101010101 0111011101 1111110101 0101011101 0101011101 1101110101 1001000101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 0101110001 0111101101 11010111100 1101111101 1111011101 11010101001 1111010101 01110101010 1100010101 1011000111 1101110111 01010110101 0101010111 01010101001 1101000101 0101010101 1101000101 1001110001 1111011001 1111110101 1110010111 1101110001 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010001 111111011 1111110111 1111011111 1111110101 0101010111 0111110101 1101010111 0101110001 0101010111 11011100101 01011100001 0101110101 0101110101 1111111101 1101111101 1111010110 1101101101 1111110111 1101110001 1101010111 0101010101 1011111101 1101110101 1101110101 1100010101 0101000101 0111010101 0101011111 1111010101 0101011101 11011100111 1101011111 1111101101 0111011101 10100011101 01001010011 1111010100 1101010001 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 797
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; nor, thy, her, she, blest, god, if, and, his, in are repeated.

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

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