This is an analysis of the poem In The Sante that begins with:

I
Before I got into my cell...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dddd X ceXe efgf ahXh X CIdiCI JKjXJK X bfbf eaXa kdkg a eb ebge a lalaXekbk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,6,6,1,4,4,4,1,2,4,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01110011 11011101 111100111 11111101 10010001 11001111 01011101 00110111 1 01101101 11 0100100010 1 01110101 01 11111101 11 11101111 110 01011101 110 1 0011101 10010111 1111111 01011101 0011101 10010111 0011101 1110101 0010111 1010111 0011101 1110101 1 1111011111 110111 01101000101 110111 1001011111 111101 11011111110 11111011 11111100010 1101110 10011101010 10011100010 1 11110101 11101100 11011111 00011111 11 111101 1 110100010 00101011 110111110 11101011 01110111 010101010 11011011 100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, round, and, my, too are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of In The Sante;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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