This is an analysis of the poem Since I’ve Been In Jail that begins with:
Since I've been in jail
the world has turned around the sun ten times ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcdXCXaAdcXCXefAadghdhiabbjgkAkgXgAfefgjagfXfhhhAifjXABgiAXfXecXhgcfXfbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 0111010111 101101001 111100 0101010 10111101 1100110 11010 011101 011001010 1011010001 1110 10111101 110011 10111110 0100101111 11001 1100111101 1111011100 1101111101 1101010110110 1010010001 11101 0101101101 111101 1010111111101 11101101101 10101111 11110 111101011010 11001 11100 0100011101 101111 01111110 011101 1001101 111100111010 10101101001 10101 11110 011101 01011110 01001010111 01011111011010 111010010011 10110101001 10100101100101 101010101110 11001 101100 111011010 1101010 101 11001 0111010111 10110100110 11110 011101 1 110011 11101 10010 1001 11011 10011 11110 11 101101 00101010011 1101 10101101110 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2382
- Average number of words per stanza: 459
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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