This is an analysis of the poem In Prison that begins with:
Wearily, drearily,
Half the day long,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXab cddececXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 1011 10110 11001 101100 1011 100101 1101 1001001 110111 110110 1001 011110 01011 110101 1011 100101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In Prison;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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