This is an analysis of the poem The Seven Virgins that begins with:
ALL under the leaves and the leaves of life
I met with virgins seven, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daXX ebfX bgfX bhXh ijcj fbdX fkbX ikhX dbeb hlgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110101 1101010 11001101 1110010 11111011011 1100101 1111111 11001010 11011110 110101 11011101 1011110 11110101 1100100 11111101 1000111 11110101 111111 110010101 1010101 11101110 110111 1110111 110111 1101110100 110011 11010101 1011110 11110100 110101 11101111 111111 1110110110 110111 11010011 1110111 1010101 10101111 111101001 1111111 101111001 111101 01011100 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word 'o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Seven Virgins;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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