This is an analysis of the poem Virginity that begins with:
My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone;
While I, least worthy to survive, persist in living on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bbb ccX ddX eeX ffX bbb ccX cca dd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101111111 11110001010101 1111110101011100 11001111111101 11110111111101 1101010111110111 01010101110101 01111111110001 1111010111110101 11011101110011 1101010101011011 101111100111011101000 11000101110001 11010101111101 11101101110101111 110101111110111 110010001001111 1101011111010101 11010001110101 1010011010111101 0101011111010101 11110001010111 1101011010110111 1111010111010011 11011110110101 10110110110011 0111011111110101 11101100011101 11010111010101 101010101110001110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, she, me, to, her, in, pity are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Virginity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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