This is an analysis of the poem Caught To Cage that begins with:
You should not expect,
To see my name blazened in lights....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcccd eeeXed XebabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101 011110001 11111010 11110111 00111010101 11 11111111101 1111111010 101011101110100 10000101001101000 1 101001101010 0100110011010 111101001 11110110 00101101 110101111 0101 110101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, my, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Caught To Cage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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