This is an analysis of the poem The Plea of Syrinx that begins with:
The mist lay on the river as I roamed the water's edge,
And a little wind of twilight murmured ghostly in the sedge- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC ddcc ccee cbff ggcc XXXXXAABC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101110101 101010111010001 01010101010100 1011100101011001 111011111111111 101010100101011 11010111011111 1101111100100111 11010101110101 1111000100010101 010101011100101 1111000101010100 101111101110111 101010111011100 101001101010101 1010001001010101 11110110010111 10010101010111 11111101111111 101110101011101 110101011111000 10100110100101001 101010101011101 0100011100011001 01110101110101 101010111010001 01010101010100 1011100101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thee, i, for, and, didst, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Plea of Syrinx;
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