This is an analysis of the poem Prisoner, The - (A Fragment) that begins with:
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray,
Reckless of the lives wasting there away;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccdd eefX ddff cceX ffgg ddaX bbff ffah ggii ggjj ggha ggdd habb kkbX Xccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0010110011 1000110101 1001001101010 111111010101 101110100110101 0111011101111 011101101001 10101100011101 110111011101 111011101111 10000101111101 11111111110100 010101011111 11010111001001 011111011111 111101110111 010101110001 1010101110111001 111101111101 1011011111110 1101011010101 111101111111 110111110101 110101111101 1010101011111 111101011101 111111111101 1001011101010 010111010111 101011011011111 111101111101 111111110101 111101111101 110101110001 0100011100101 110111010100 1101010101001 0111010110101 1101011101010 1101111110010 0101101011000 111101110101 101101110101 111111011101 110101010101 010001110101 1101111000100 111101111101 11001000010101 110101110101 011111010101 1000101110101 110001010100 10101011010101 1010101010101 0101011010101 111111111101 0111010100001 11010011101001 00110101001000 1101111000101 1111010010101 0101010111110 0101011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, my, with, that, its, to, begins are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase desire connects the lines.
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