This is an analysis of the poem The Naiads' Music: From A Faun's Holiday that begins with:

Come, ye sorrowful, and steep
Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbccaa ddeefXaa XXgghhaaiiXXaa iiXfXXffAA eeffbbXXggjjAa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,14,10,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 1101001001 1110101 10100001 1010101 1110001 1011111 1001001001 1110011 10111101 11111101 1010001 010101010 111111010 11010001 101100001 1110011 01110100 10110101 11000101 00110011 10111111 110010111 01011101 0110101 00011101 110011101 01100101 1110011 1110011 10110101 1010001 111111110 111111010 1111100 1111111 01110110 1000101 1110011 1101001001 1110011 11011111 01111001 11010101 01010101 01110101 11110100 10110101 11110111 1010101 1010101 01010101 1110011 1101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; our, as are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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