This is an analysis of the poem An Exile's Song that begins with:
My soul is like a prisoned lark,
That sings and dreams of liberty,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaB cbcB dbdb ebeB fbfB dbdbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11110100 01110111 01010101 11010011 11110111 110001001 01010101 11110001 010101001 01010111 11101111 11110111 11110001 11110101 01010101 11110111 11110101 11110101 01010101 11110111 01110100 11000111 01110111 11111111 01110101 00010101 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, not are repeated.
The author used the same words my, at, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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