This is an analysis of the poem Dead- A Prisoner that begins with:
He died the loneliest death of all,
Amid his foes he died. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dXdXbb ebebcc fgfgXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 010111 11110101 111101 111100101 010101001 01110001 0100100 111010101 010101 10010101 110010001 01100101 110101 111111001 110111 111100101 011101001 111110101 1101101 11010111 111111 11111110 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Dead- A Prisoner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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