This is an analysis of the poem So Cruel Prison that begins with:
So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgdgdgagahhhhijijkakafffffbfbaeaejXjXeXefll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010110101 1110110111 0011110001 0101111101 11110101110 0111110101 01111001010 1101111101 01010010101 0101110101 0111110111 1101010101 0111100101 011111101 1101111011 0101110101 01001011101 1101011101 0111011101 111111101 0101011111 0101010011 110111101 1101111101 0101111111 0101101111 0101111111 1101110101 011001101 01100111001 0101110101 1101010101 0111110111 10001010111 0101111101 0101010101 0101010011 0101010101 0101110111 10011010101 10010110001 0110110101 0111110101 1001111101 10101100011 1101101101 1011111101 01011101110 1001111101 01100010101 1101111101 0101010101 1001000101 01001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2438
- Average number of words per stanza: 443
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with are repeated.
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