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

WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence
To beat your life out in my life's low cage; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdefXgdccXchcfdbcffci igfeXjXfk fgcjfegf XjXhhjXkabgXaa gcichgkebfe fgeec gaecceXcgXkec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,9,8,14,11,5,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111111 0111101111 1101010111 1101011011 0101011101 1100010101 1001011101 1101010101 0101001101 1001010111 110101011001 1101000011 11010100100 01010011001 11100100001 0101110111 1011001101 0011010111 1111 101111 1111010111 1111111111 1111111101 0101111111 1011111111 0101111101 1111010011 0101011111 11011111010 1111110101 11110011111 1110101100 1011011111 001001000101 1101 1111001111 1110011111 0101000101 10011110111 0101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1011101100 1001111111 1101001111 10111011001 1101111100 1011101101 1101010101 1101011111 01001110111 011101000 1101011101 0101011100 1101110110 0111011110 0100111101 0100010111 0100010001 1100110101 1111111101 1001011011 0101110001 0101010101 1101010101 1111011101 0101010111 0111010111 1101010101 11010111011 1101110111 1101010101 0011010101 0101110111 1101110001 1011010101 11011100100 1011011111 1100011101 0101010111 0101000101 101100101001 0111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; that, your, to, and, have, his, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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