This is an analysis of the poem The Condemned that begins with:
There is a wildness still in England that will not feed
In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer's hand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101011 010010100100101 10011100100101 00110101000101 11111101111001 1010100101111 11101101111001 110101101101111 0111001011001 11010010110111 0111010011011 101001001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, it, not, as are repeated.
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