This is an analysis of the poem Freed To Be Enslaved that begins with:
Freed to be enslaved.
But without chains or whips....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBaDefbbb cgbacb HbbHhaiX eXciafjXc ABCBaDebcb ABFiha ABFaca gAXajklXAhEAlkEaaEaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,8,9,10,6,6,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001 101111 11010010 011 010 100101 1 110011010 0101010 01001101 10100010111 0100 1111011 0110010001 1010000101 01101 110101101 11101110 1000101 1111 11101110 01 011101011 1111 1011010110101 1010011 0101011011000 100011011101 010011 1 11000110 0010010110010 001 10100101 10001 101111 11010010 011 010 100101 1 01011001 11 10110011 10001 101111 010110010 100101010 1110101 00101111101 10001 101111 010110010 10010101 11101010011 0010111101 11 10001 11 110001 010 111 01011101 10001 0010101 11 10001 0010101 110010101 11 1 0001 11 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to, with are repeated.
The author used the same word freed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word feed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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