This is an analysis of the poem The Caged Monarch that begins with:

Prison'd king! What worlds of woe
In thy weary, gold-brown eyes -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcb dbdbdb ceceXX afafdf cgcgaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 0110111 1010101 1010101 0010101 1011100 1110111 1010101 1010011 1000101 1011101 10000111 1110101 0010101 11000101 1001011 1111101 1110010 1011111 1011101 1011101 10101001 0011101 01010101 1011101 1010101 1111101 0110101 1111101 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word dost at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Caged Monarch;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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