This is an analysis of the poem The Vicksburg Jail that begins with:
O, when the poar pris'ner is put in the jaile,
he is put in a cell and his doors are all bar'd...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdX aadX eebb Xadd ffdX ggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011001001 101001101111 00111101001 11111111101 111101101 11111111001 01101101011 11101100101 0010110101 11101111011 01011011101 1111011000101 1101101011 1011011011111 01101011111 1011010011101 1110011001 1111101001 11010111101 11101010101 0101111001 0100111001 10111111101 0111100101 110011111011 111110110101 11011011001 11110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; as, and, he, in, i are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word jale at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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