On The Marriage Of A Virgin by Dylan Thomas: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On The Marriage Of A Virgin that begins with:

Waking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light
Surprised in the opening of her nightlong eyes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXa bbXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 100100101011101 010010000101 0101010101010 101111011001 101000100111110 101000100001010 1011010011101001 110000100010101 010101111001 0111111100101 001011100101001 1100100101001010 101111011111101 1101010100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.

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  • summary of On The Marriage Of A Virgin;
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