This is an analysis of the poem Dungeon that begins with:
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon.
I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110100010 111010100110111011100 011111110111000111 1110011111000111 1011101001 111011111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, this, wall, and, in are repeated.
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