This is an analysis of the poem A Prison Gets To Be A Friend that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010100010 0101001 1100100100 10010100 11010101 100101 0110001110 110010100 1101010 1100110 11000010010 11010010 1100010 11001010 10100100 0101010 010001 110101 011000011 0101000 1011010 110000110 1010100110 1110000000 0101010 01010100 110100000 1111010 010011 10000010 1111011100 010000000
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Prison Gets To Be A Friend;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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