This is an analysis of the poem On A Music Box that begins with:
Poor little sprite! in that dark, narrow cell
Caged by the law of man's resistless might!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdeefeefgfgfhfhffcfccfcfgdgdffiaai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1101011001 0111011111 0101000001 1111110101 1100111101 1111010011 1101011111 11110111110 0111010101 11010101110 1101010101 1111001111 1111001101 0111011101 1001010111 1001000111 1101011101 11111001101 1001010101 1001010101 0111111011 1011111111 1111010101 1111001101 1111001101 0111011101 10110011010 11111100001 010010101010 1101110111 1101100111 1001100101 10010011001 110101101010 1101001111 11110101010 11011101001 1110010110 1011110101 1111110100 1111010101 1111111101 1101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2016
- Average number of words per stanza: 356
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thou, with, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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