This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of A Prison that begins with:
Now this is the song of a prison—a song of a gaol or jug—
A ballad of quod or of chokey, the ultimate home of the mug.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ccdd XXbb eeff gghh iibb jjjj bbkk lXcX bbmm lljj nncjXccll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000100100100111 01001101001001001 01101011011101011 10111001010111001 0100101010100101 101001111010100101 010010101111001 10100101000100100 1010010101100101 010111101100101 111011010101011111 111010110011111 0010110100010100 00101001010101011 11111011000101101 0101110011100111 1110100110110011 110010101101001 10101100101110101 1010101010101101 01001101001100101 10111111100101 1101100111001001 10101001000101001 11110101100111 10110111011111 11011101011111 1010100111010101 101101110100111 10111111010111111 1010110111101001 10100100101101001 11110100100101 11001001010100111 010110101101001 11100111110101001 1100111101101001 10100100100100101 0110110100110110 0101111101101110 111110111111101 111011101110101 11101011011011011 11100101010100111 10101101100111001 1010110101110101 110011100010111 1110011100100101 010011100100101 00101001010101101 11011110111011 101101010111101 101001001010100111 0101000110101000 101100101101001 111010101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, song, they, their, his, he, you, that, we, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, on, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Song Of A Prison;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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