This is an analysis of the poem Virginia--The West that begins with:
THE noble Sire, fallen on evil days,
I saw, with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX bXXba bXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010101101 1101100100100 1000100101110010 00110101001 010111001010 111001010100101010 1010 0010010101001011 10110110101110 10100101110 1010101101011101 1111111 1110010010011 11010110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, me, you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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