This is an analysis of the poem The Prisoners Of Naples that begins with:

I HAVE been thinking of the victims bound
In Naples, dying for the lack of air... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcccbbadadaXaaeebXcfccfcgghhhbbiigXggehehheXcaacdddgggjgjaggabbggbbeeeegXege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 77,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 0101010101 1110111101 1101110001 0101010101 0100110101 1101010101 0001110101 1011001101 1011011101 1101010101 11110010111 1111111110 1011000001 11110101001 1101010101 1101011101 0111110101 11010101010 01101100101 1111011111 01000100101 1001110101 01011010101 10010100101 1011000111 1001010101 0011010101 01010110101 1001010101 1101110101 1001100101 00100001111 1011010100 1000110101 0110010100 1101010101 101011010100 11110110101 0111011101 0111111111 1101010100 1101000011 1101111101 1101010110 1011011101 1100110111 0101010001 01011010101 11010101110 11010001010 00010100010 1011111101 1001110101 1101111101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101010001 1011000101 1111111111 1101110101 1111011101 1111011101 1111011101 0111110111 1101010111 1001010001 0101000101 0100010101 01001011101 0111011110 1111011101 1101110101 011001110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 609
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and, for are repeated.

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

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