This is an analysis of the poem The New Aspasia that begins with:
If I have given myself to you, and you,
And if these pale hands are not virginal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefef aggafhfhdXhd ieiieahadjhhjkkjhljl kkmkmm ididheheX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,20,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110110111 1011111100 1111011111 1100111111 11110100010 0001010011 11110111010 0111110101 111010111 1011011101 1111011101 100111 0111010101 11110011101 1111011011 10101110101 11010101101 01011010101 1101111111 10111101110 11110110111 1011110100 1110010111 1111010100 1101000101 0111010101 1001110101 0111011111 0100110101 1111011011 0111000111 1111010111 0111111 11111101110 0101010101 1111010001 110110100110 0111110111 01100110101 10011011010 1100001 1101011111 10010010110 10001010101 1111111101 1010111101 01110100101 101000111 1011011110 110111 1101110101 11111101111 1101011101 011111 1111111101 01010111001 11110110101 111001111100 111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, nor, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase than connects the lines.
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- summary of The New Aspasia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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