This is an analysis of the poem The Prison Bell that begins with:
Hark to the bell of sorrow! - 'tis awak'ning up again
Each broken spirit from its brief forgetfulness of pain. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeaaaadd XXffggdd hhbbiidd aadXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010101100101 11010001100001 01110100010001 11001101111101 01111100011001 11010111010011 01000100011101 11011101011101 01111111111100 01011101111101 01111100101001 111101001101001 11110101110101 100011001010111 11011111110111 01010111110101 11111100010101 1101111010101101 110011010111010 110101011011010 1111011110101 01111101111111 11111100111111 110010001011101 11110101010101 11001101110101 11000100110101 11111111101101 110101111100101 10011101110011 11011100010111 11110011110111 11011100110011 111101011100101 10110111111101 11001101100101 11010111010101 10011100100001 11011111110101 11011101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, be, that, and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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