This is an analysis of The Naiads' Music: From A Faun's Holiday by Robert Nichols.

Come, ye sorrowful, and steep
Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbccaa ddeefXaa XXgghhaaiiXXaa iiXfXXffAA eeffbbXXggjjAa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,14,10,14,
  • Metre: 1110011 1101001001 1110101 10100001 1010101 1110001 1011111 1001001001 1110011 10111101 11111101 1010001 010101010 111111010 11010001 101100001 1110011 01110100 10110101 11000101 00110011 10111111 110010111 01011101 0110101 00011101 110011101 01100101 1110011 1110011 10110101 1010001 111111110 111111010 1111100 1111111 01110110 1000101 1110011 1101001001 1110011 11011111 01111001 11010101 01010101 01110101 11110100 10110101 11110111 1010101 1010101 01010101 1110011 1101001001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 54

Repeated words/phrases

our, as

Anaphora

our