This is an analysis of the poem Prison Song that begins with:
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water,
rearing to escape me. Where could it find another ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbcdXXbXedeceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101011011110 1000111101010 10011010101010 10111110011 1101010101101 110011111111 111001000100100 111111010101 01000111110101 0110101010011 110111011101 1111011101 01010110101 010110101110 10011111101 010111000101 01010111000101 01011101001101 11111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 969
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
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