This is an analysis of the poem Not All The Singers Of A Thousand Years that begins with:

Not all the singers of a thousand years
Can open English prisons. No. Though hell ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdadca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101000100 1101010111 10110100101 01110100101 1111110101 1111110111 11101101000 1111010111 1011110101 1011010001 0111011101 1111010101 1101111101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, you, and are repeated.

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