This is an analysis of the poem Poulain The Prisoner that begins with:
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BEYOND his silent vault green springs went by,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aaaaaaaX bcccbb X deeXXXeX fgggff X bddbbdXb hdhddh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01010110111 0101010101 11010011001 10111100101 0111010111 1100011101 1101011101 1011011100 1101110111 0101111101 11001110101 11001110101 1111011111 1111010101 1 1110011111 10110000111 1111110111 01010011111 1111110001 1111010001 1111110111 1111110111 1001010101 1011111101 110100100111 1101110100 1101110101 0111101111 1 1100110111 1001011111 0111010001 0111111101 1111011111 111010001011 1101010111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101000111 1101010111 1101101111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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