This is an analysis of the poem Parable For A Certain Virgin that begins with:
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine;
Refresh your recollection,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcdc eded aeae ebeb fgfg haha ihih ejej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 0111010 11010001 0101010 11010101 1001010 01100100 1100110 01010101 1101110 110010101 0111010 111100101 0100011 11011101 0101101 11111111 0101111 11010101 1101011 11110101 1000010 11010101 0101010 11010111 1101010 01110111 1100010 11000101 0010010 11011101 0101010 11010101 0101111 11011101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Parable For A Certain Virgin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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