This is an analysis of The Virgin Martyr by Ada Cambridge.
Every wild she-bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,
But a captive woman, made for love -- no mate, no nest has she.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababb XcXcc dcdcc aeaee
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 10011111110011010 101010111111111 000101010111111010 101010111110101 101000111110111 1011111110101010 110110101110101 00100101101101000 001011100110101 001000101110111 1111101011101010 111010101111101 1111101000101110 11111110100000101 111011111010101 1110111111101110 101001110110011 1010111111111110 111110101011101 101010100011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, my, i, that
Anaphora
i, of, still, o