This is an analysis of the poem In Prison that begins with:
I cried out for the pain of man,
I cried out for my bitter wrath...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaccddccceceffgcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111101 01010111 110001001 01011101 110101 111100111 11110111 11010101 01011101 01011001 011101010 11010101 111101110 11011100011 10110111 101101 1101110 110101 010101101010 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, some are repeated.
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