This is an analysis of the poem Mitigations that begins with:
My prison has its pleasures. Every day
At breakfast--time, spare meal of milk and bread,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbebde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101001 1101110111 1011000101 0101010001 0101111101 0101011011 1001000101 11110100001 1011001100 1111010101 0111010101 0001010111 1101011100 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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