This is an analysis of the poem Bitter Cage that begins with:
Now who wants to open my bitter cage?
And see me get a little bit cuckoo....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABBBBB CdABB CdABB ABABBBBB CdABB CdABB ABAB BBBBXCdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,5,8,5,5,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101 1111010111 1110101101 1111010111 111011111 111011111 111011111 111011111 1110 1 1101 111111 111111 1110 1 1101 111111 111111 1110101101 1111010111 1110101101 1111010111 111011111 111011111 111011111 111011111 1110 1 1101 111111 111111 1110 1 1101 111111 111111 1110101101 1111010111 1110101101 1111010111 110111111 110111111 110111111 110111111 1110 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; now, who, wants, to, see, me, go, cuckoo, and, it, i, wont are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, and, don't are repeated.
The author used the same word please at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cuckoo is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word cuckoo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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