This is an analysis of the poem Farewell Dark Gaol that begins with:
Farewell, dark gaol. You hold some better hearts
Than in this savage world I thought to find.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbX cXcXbb
- 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: 1111111101 1001011101 11111101001 1111010101 1101111111 0111001101 1101011011 1101010100 1111011101 1111010101 1010010111 1101010110 0111110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
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