This is an analysis of the poem To One In Bedlam that begins with:
With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars,
Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba ccdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010011010101 101101011111 110101110001 011101100111 101100110111 010100111101 1011010010101 110101001001 101001001101 111101111101 101101011111 1111001011010 111101101111 01110101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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