This is an analysis of the poem Released—january, 1878 that begins with:
On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. The released men were...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXaa baba abab acac dcdc bebe fafa gaga bbbb haha icic jkjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001001001001001100110011100001100111101000101111001111110101 1111111101 1111001100 1101101101 1101011010 000111101 1111011110 1101101111 1010110010010 110111101 0111111010 0010011101 10111101110 101101101 1100101110 110011101 10111111010 111110101 1001011010 0101111101 001101011110 0010011111 1110101010 1010011101 10101011010 100111101 111101110 0101111101 11111000010 111011101 10111001010 110100101 1101111010 110011101 1001100010 1100100111 1110101010 110011101 0101000010 0111101101 11101001010 111101101 01011101110 1110111101 0110101110 1101101101 1101110010 01111011011 1111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', they, their, and, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, what, she are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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