This is an analysis of the poem Virgin Youth that begins with:

Now and again
All my body springs alive,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcXXdaceeabdXcffacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 11100101 101101000011 110011111 1101101110 10111101100 10111001101 10001100111 00101001 11110010 1000101010010 100110010 1110101 1001011 01111101 111011100 100111000110 101101 10010100001110101 101010111011 1011001010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 827
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, and, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines itself is repeated).

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  • summary of Virgin Youth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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