This is an analysis of The Disciple by Oscar Wilde.
When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of
sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbb babXX X XXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,1,4,3,
- Metre: 1010101001010010 11000010111010110 10111111001110 10 11111011100101 10000101111001100 111100111111101 1110010101011001 1 11010100101 11111011100101 0110111111111111 1111111001001101 1100110 10110111010011111 1111111001000111 101110100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, he, ', mirror
