This is an analysis of the poem The Virgin Mother that begins with:
My little love, my darling,
You were a doorway to me; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcb dbebab efdfef afXfef dgggfg hhfhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1001101 11110011 00011 110110110 111011001 1101110 111101 1011110 101100 1011110 011111 1111110 11110101 1111110 0110101 10001010 01111 11101110 1111001 11010011 110101 010010010 11001 11101110 00100111 10101111 111111 110111011 0111 1011010 1101101 1101011 1111 111111110 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, once are repeated.
The author used the same words my, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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