This is an analysis of the poem To A Caged Lion that begins with:
Poor conquered monarch! though that haughty glance
Still speaks thy courage unsubdued by time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcc Xdcdee fgbgffXaebebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 1111010011 1000101101 1011001101 1011110111 101101010101 1101011101 0101001101 0111011001 1011001101 01001010101 1111011111 1101010101 1111010101 01001110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 1100010101 1101011101 10001001101 11010001001 11010001001 1111010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; thy, and, that, of are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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