This is an analysis of the poem A Day In The Castle Of Envy that begins with:
The castle walls are full of eyes,
And not a mouse may creep unseen.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbdcacaaeae dbcdbccfXgX hfXeifeijbjkbblf bdbabaafhhfbb dbddbadgfgXmXmj bjbnXjncfjcbbeeX agadXghdhdd ahaohhfaoahfacac mambcblfcXaXfaccad begbeabhfhlhfh XbeefXlbabaXfkdXoaof eeeaaeeeeeecccjXbcj bpebpebcfhcfhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,16,13,15,16,11,16,18,14,20,19,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11011101 1010111 10101100 1010101 1010101 0010001 1010111 1000111 0110001 0010101 1010111 1010101 1011100 1110101 1011100 1011101 01010111 1011101 1110101 1110101 0011111 1110111 10010111 100101 1110101 1011111 11101001 0010101 1010111 1010111 1110101 111001 11101010 0010001 10101010 0010111 1010111 1111101 1110100 1010110 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1110011 1010111 1010111 0110001 1110101 1010101 1011101 0011001 1011100 1010111 1011101 1010111 1010111 1011101 1101101 0010001 1011101 111101 0011101 1110100 1110101 1011000 1110101 10111010 1110101 1010111 1011100 10011010 1110001 1110011 11101011 10101110 1010001 1000101 1011111 1110001 1011100 1000101 1110101 0010101 1010101 1010111 1011100 1010101 1110101 1010111 1110111 0011101 1011101 1000101 0010111 1110111 1110011 1110101 0110101 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1110101 1110011 1010111 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011111 10111110 1110101 00111110 1011100 1010111 1011101 10101010 0010111 10101111 1011101 1110101 1011101 1110101 1111100 1011001 1110101 1011111 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 110101 10100100 10101001 1010101 101111 1110110 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010110 1010100 0011101 10111101 100101101 1010101 1011100 1010110 00111001 1111101 1010110 1111101 10100111 1011111 1011111 1110101 1010101 1100101 00101010 10101010 0011101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1011101 00100010 1010100 0010101 1110100 00111010 0010101 1011101 1011101 1001101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1110111 1011100 0110101 1110111 10100101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 197
- 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; that, and, curseth, at, all, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, all, there, and, love, curseth, telleth, first are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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