This is an analysis of the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon that begins with:
My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacacaddeeffgghihijjjjbb jjkkkbbllmhmhkkaaXdjj hhggbbbbeennjjjhhkkkh kbbkjhhjbbkkkkhbhbkaXoo jjjjfhfhhddappa aoobbXqqfkkbkkkbXkk jjjjddbbaahhrrjjjjjjjhhhqqkkbbbbddqqbb ssggbbkkXjkkmmjjhhjjooffjjrrkkbbbbaabbgXgddjXjjbbooffggeXccqqookkee dodohhbbkkbbggrre
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,21,21,23,15,19,38,67,69,32,62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011100 1101 00101 11110101 11111101 11000101 11100101 11100101 01010111 11111001 10111101 11011101 11010101 11011101 110101001 01010101 10101111 1011101 1011110 1010001 10101101 1010111 1011101 1011101 1000101 01010101 1110100101 01010111 1110101011 10010101 01111101 11010101 001101011 10100111 10101001 101101001 10111001 110001001 10110101 01101101 11110011 11010011 11110111 101101010 11111101 11110111 11110101 111100101 11011101 11110101 11111101 10111101 11110011 11010101 10011101 11110001 00110001 01001101 11110001 01111101 1111001 11011111 11010101 11000101 01011111 11010100 01010101 11010111 11010001 10011101 11011011 11010001 01011101 011101110 010111110 11111101 11010001 01110101 11110011 11110001 10110101 01011011 01110101 01010011 01111001 11111111 100100101 01111101 11111101 01110101 11010101 01011101 11010001 10011001 11010111 11000111 01110101 01010011 11010001 11010101 11110101 11000111 11010001 11010111 01010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 01010111 11010111 01011100 11010110 01010111 11110101 01010001 01110111 11010111 10101101 11110101 11011101 11000101 11010111 111101100 01111101 01111111 11110101 11010101 11110101 01111111 11010101 11011101 01100101 11110001 111111001 110100100 11110101 110011101 11010111 11010111 11011011 10010111 10110001 01001101 11010111 11111101 11010111 11111101 01111101 11110101 11110101 100011011 11010101 01011001 11010101 11011101 110010101 01010111 11111101 11011111 01110101 01011101 010101010 11010100 1101001010 110100110 01010011 01010101 01010101 11011111 01111010 11011111 111111100 0101001010 11111111 11010101 11000101 01010111 01010101 11010101 110101010 100101010 11011101 010100001 11010011 01011111 11011111 11011101 11011101 11111101 01010111 110100001 11110101 10010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 011000101 01010101 01011101 11110101 00110101 11011101 01010100 11011111 11011111 11111101 11110111 1101100 11111101 11110111 11011111 11010011 11011101 010010101 01010101 011100101 11101101 11000101 11011101 11011101 11111111 01111111 11110111 11111101 01010111 11111101 1111 1111 11110111 11010101 11011111 11111101 11010111 110101 11111101 01011101 11110111 11010101 11111111 01110111 011100101 11001101 11000101 11000101 10111111 11111011 11010101 11010111 01010100 11011100 01100111 01010001 01110101 01011101 11110111 11000101 11110111 11010100 11110111 11001101 11010111 11011101 11010001 10100111 11010101 11111111 11010101 01010101 11110101 11010111 11010101 11110101 01110101 11111100 10110111 11011101 11001101 11110111 11100101 11010111 11010100 11111111 1000011 01000101 110011101 11110111 10111010 11011101 11110101 11110111 11110111 11111101 11010101 11010101 010110101 110101001 01010101 11110001 11111101 01011011 11010100 11111101 10010101 11011101 011000001 10110001 01110101 11111101 110101001 11010111 01011110 01010111 11010101 10110101 111001101 11110011 11111111 11010001 011100001 11110111 11100101 10111110 01010101 111101111 11001100 11001111 11001111 111100001 01110101 11010101 01000101 11011001 10111101 11110001 11111101 10110101 11010111 1010011101 11011101 11011101 11110101 10110101 010101 01110111 11011101 10010111 110010101 110101010 1101011010 010111 01110101 11110111 01010101 10110111 11011101 11111011 11110111 11111101 11100101 01001101 11110101 01100111 101011101 11111110 11110101 01011011 11111111 11111101 11001101 11110111 111111011 01110101 10110000 110101 11110111 11110101 11010111 01001111 11111101 01100101 01011101 11001101 11011111 11111111 10111011 11011011 110011101 01011101 11011111 11010101 011111101 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1227
- Average number of words per stanza: 220
- Amount of lines: 392
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their, we, in, to, each, his, so, i, no, me, my, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, which, we, a, i, the, i've, so, it, lone, my, no are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lone connects the lines.
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