This is an analysis of The Wood-Nymph by Arthur Symons.
-After a picture by Burne Jones-
The green leaves, ah, the green leaves cover me:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcadaefXfbgXcdbhabheijgXaddXdakaaehcjdckckjhkij
- Stanza lengths: 48,
- Metre: 10010111 0111011101 1111001101 1101010001 1111111101 110100010010 1111000111 10011110100 1101110111 10111101000 1001011111 11011101111 0100010111 1101011101 1111010111 1101110101 101000101 0101010111 0101111101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101011111 0100110100 1101110101 101010101 1101000101 1111110111 11000011010 1111110101 1111110111 10010010101 1101110011 0111110111 1111111101 0101111101 1111111111 11110100111 1101110111 0111111101 0111110111 1101110101 0111001110 110111101111 1111010101 0101110111 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
leaves, and, i, to, happy, pass, not
Anaphora
and, part, will
Epiphora
dawn
Anadiplosis
pass