This is an analysis of the poem My Body, Which My Dungeon Is that begins with:
My body which my dungeon is,
And yet my parks and palaces: - ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaddXXeeffaaXcXXdXccbbaagghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 11111100 10111111 1011011 11010101 11111111 010101000 101010100 11010101 11010101 01010111 1011011 10111111 10010101 11011001 11001100 10111101 10110101 11011110 11110011 10110101 11010100 10110111 11010100 11110111 10010001 11111111 11110110 00110011 010011101 11010101 11010001 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1160
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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