This is an analysis of the poem A Prison Evening that begins with:
Each star a rung,
night comes down the spiral...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcdXXcecddff dggdbfegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 111010 110010 011011101 10111100101 0011 01101110 01001001101 101 011001000 01001 000101 0100101111 0101011 11010111101 10101111010 010100110 0110101 1101011101 0111011001 1101101101 10111100001 1100101110 01110010 101101 01110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Prison Evening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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