This is an analysis of the poem The Hamadryad that begins with:

RHAICOS was born amid the hills wherefrom
Gnidos the light of Caria is discern’d...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXcdefgXhbfebXibjbeacXklmcblladjnikfhdadodedXpqbacbimcdboeXaapmbnoXbcrdcXbdbmaXdcefbcbmfmkflmbmrXormokrmjemgkrfebppiaeaefmXkdbrdadferddaldmlfrdlcfaXmfddiblcXrnbcordaXdckqkmlfoo dmr coqpdcdcicmmmdbXfmcmXifbcmcaeocmamkd dldnbabXeacmmofmanbXdssnaodrfmfkdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 179,3,36,38,6,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110101100 1001010010 1110110111 1101010101 1101010011 0111001011 001011101 111010101 1101100100 1001010011 110011100100 11110101100 1111001101 010110101 1100110100 0101001101 1101010111 0101000101 0011010100 1011011101 01010111010 1111001101 1011000101 1011110001 0101011100 10001010101 1101111101 1101111111 1111010110 1111011101 1011110101 1111011111 1101110111 1111110001 1101 011111 101010111 1101010111 0101110101 0111010 101 1111110111 0111000101 101110101 1111010101 0101110111 1100111101 1111010101 1111010001 1001011100 1100011101 1111011111 1101000111 1101010101 111110111 1101010111 1001110101 1101010111 0101010011 1001110101 1100111011 0111010110 1001010111 10010000101 11110010101 111110101 1101110101 1101110111 1011111101 11111101101 0111110001 111001 1101 1111110111 0101000101 1001110111 1011011011 101111101100 0111010111 0101 10111111 1101110101 0111010111 0101101101 1011111100 1111110111 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 0101010101 1010111101 1001 1101110111 1110001101 0101010111 11110011101 11011000101 1101110111 1010011111 10111010100 101011000101 1101111111 10110110101011 0111010101 0101111111 1111011111 0111010111 1001010001 01110010100 1101011101 101111010111 101111011101 10111101 101101 0101110101 100111010111 101111010101 0111011111 1111110011 1011 10111111 1011111101 0101110100 1111000101 10111011101 0100 1010011 1111010111 01111111001 1101101111 1111110111 1111011101 0101001101 0101111101 1101010111 10111110101 1111111100 101110110110 101111110101 010001101 1111011111 0101011111 0100110101 10100010101101 0011011101 1111110111 1101010101 1001010111 0101110111 1111110101 101011011100 101110101 1111001101 101101110111 10100 10001 101101 010100101 101011010011 1111011111 11001110101 1101011111 1111010101 1101011111 1101111111 101111011101 1111111111 1111011111 1101111110 1111111101 1111000101 101101111111 100100010100 1101010101 1101011101 1101111011 1111 10111111 1101011100 0101011101 10111010101 1111011111 1001011111 1000111100 1011111110 0101011101 0101011111 1101010101 0111110101 1111010001 1101010111 1101010101 0101101111 1011110001 1011010111 1100010101 0111110111 1110010101 0110010101 1110111111 01010 11101 1111011110 101101111 1101011101 1101011101 101111 1111 11 11001111 1111010101 0111110111 1111010101 1110110101 10110111101 1101010111 01001010101 1101011101 1011010111 0100011111 1001010111 0101011101 1110110101 1101110101 1001000101 1101010111 1001010001 1101010101 1001010011 1111010001 1000111111 1111010001 0101011101 0011111101 1101110101 1101100101 1111000101 1101111111 1101111001 1110011011 1110101101 11111000101 0101111111 1111000101 0101011101 0101111001 1111011111 1101110101 1100010111 1101010111 1101111111 1111010111 1101110101 0111110101 0100110001 1111011111 11010101001 1101010011 1011110111 1001001101 11110101001 1011110100 0111110101 010010111 0111100111 01011111111 1101101111 0111110101 1111111000 0111010101 1111111111 1011010101 0101010111 0111010101 11011100111 0111010111 0101110001 1101100001 0111011101 1011110011 1011010111 110100001 0101011111 1101010101 1101011111 100100 101 1101011111 0111000101 0100110101 1011110001 1111011111 0111010111 1111010111 1001111101 0101010111 1111110111 0101011111 1111010111 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1791
  • Average number of words per stanza: 345
  • Amount of lines: 300
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, d, her, or, it, my, to, leave, that, me, for, not, his, i, nor are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines law is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Hamadryad;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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