This is an analysis of the poem Two Songs From A Play that begins with:
I
I saw a staring virgin stand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbaXa cddcbeeb X cffcgggg XaaXbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,8,1,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 1101001 11011001 11010101 11110101 010101001 11110101 01011111 010100101 01010101 100100101 010100101 01010111 11110101 100100101 1 010111001 11111101 01010100 010100111 010010100 10011111 110101001 11110100 1011110 01010101 11010101 01010101 01010101 01010101 11010101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; another, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, another, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of Two Songs From A Play;
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