This is an analysis of the poem The Jailer that begins with:
My night sweats grease his breakfast plate.
The same placard of blue fog is wheeled into position...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc adeac bbdac XXXcX fbcgX XhbiX XfXha XgbihXeaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01100110100010 0011111 01111110 010001 110111 1010110111 00011 11011011 100011 1001 110101111100 1100100101 1001 1100101 11010 1101001001010 1001010101 01011010011 111110101 01010110011 11111110 111 100101110 100110100 111110110 1101110100 1110010 111 00100100 01110010 10111 10100100 1100100 1111 10101 10011010 011111101110 1111101 10100010100 11011101 1011001 1101 101101111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words surely, that, do are repeated.
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- summary of The Jailer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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