This is an analysis of the poem Prisoners that begins with:
Though the road turn at last
to death’s ordinary door, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdabccc XedXX aceXdaX cae ccaXeXXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,7,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 0110101 111110 0101010 10011 1 10110 111101 111010 1011001 1110111 10100011 1101111 1111100 0101101 011111 11001 0111100 01 010100 11111 00110010 11101101 10111 010100 01010011 1010111100 111 1101011 01100101 110 11010101 1001010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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