This is an analysis of the poem The Virginity that begins with:
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose
From his first love, no matter who she be.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cbcb abab cbab cbcbXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111101 0011110110 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 0101110101 1111011101 01011110001 1111011101 01110101111 1111010101 1101010101 1111010111 1111110001 1111011101 0111011100 10111111101 10111110111 1111010101 0101111100 1001011001 11110111111 1101010001 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, she, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, even are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Virginity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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