This is an analysis of the poem A Convent Wothout God that begins with:

A prison is a convent without God.
Poverty, Chastity, Obedience... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXaba XcXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0100010011 1001000100 0111000101 1101010101 1011011000 1101101101 1111010100 1111010101 1011110100 1001000101 1101110100 1111110101 10110101001 1011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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