This is an analysis of the poem Tied By The Wrists To A Pity Pit that begins with:
Down, down feeling gagged and bound.
And tied by the wrists to a pity pit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB cddd ebbb edXbAbaBXABaBb ABBXCCBCCBCCBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1110100101 0100101001000 10101010 1011101011 101010101 11000111 111010101010 1110010101 101010101001 111001010100 10101111110 01110111 1111010111 1 1110111 110100101 1 0100101001000 1 1110111 1110100101 1 0100101001000 0101010001011 1110111 1110100101 0100101001000 1111111 11111 1110100101 1111111 11111 1110100101 1111111 11111 1110100101 1001001000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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; down, and, doo are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, doo are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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