This is an analysis of the poem On A Political Prisoner that begins with:
SHE that but little patience knew,
From childhood on, had now so much... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcdedfegeceecehchfcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 01110111 10011110 11010101 10010101 01010111 01000101 010101011 011100100 1110001 10011111 11011101 10110001 01000101 01110101 11011111 11011111 11110101 11011001 01110101 01010100 11001101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, upon are repeated.
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