This is an analysis of the poem The Prisoner To A Robin Who Came To His Window that begins with:
Welcome! welcome! little stranger,
Welcome to my lone retreat,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcd cececd fgfgcd hihicdXafafcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1001101 101010010 1011111 1011101 1010100 10101011 1111101 11111011 1111101 1011101 1111100 110101110 1010101 10101010 1111101 1111101 1010100 11101010 0010101 11111110 1011001 1110101 1111100 10011010 0010101 10101010 1010111 1110011 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; welcome, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word welcome is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word liberty at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase liberty connects the lines.
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