This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Stygian Naiades that begins with:

Proserpine may pull her flowers,
Wet with dew or wet with tears, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcddeEfGAXHH iccichchjjeEfGAXHH
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010 1011101 1010101 0010101 010011001 1111010 100111 00101010 0011001 1111111 0111111 10101101 101 1010111 1010101 0110100 01011101 1011111 1001101 1111111 1010001 1110101 1111101 1110111 10101101 0111101 1111111 1010101 1110111 10101101 101 1010111 1010101 0110100 01011101 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; with, and, in, of are repeated.

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

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

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