This is an analysis of the poem The Caged Skylark that begins with:
As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage,
Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101111100011 110100011111 110100100111 001001100111 10111111111 111000010101 111101000011 111100010111 1101111111 111111011001 101111110 11000111111 1100011101100 101010011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, or, nest are repeated.
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