Analysis of In Prison
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
Wearily, drearily,
Half the day long,
Flap the great banners
High over the stone;
Strangely and eerily
Sounds the wind's song,
Bending the banner-poles.
While, all alone,
Watching the loophole's spark,
Lie I, with life all dark,
Feet tether'd, hands fetter'd
Fast to the stone,
The grim walls, square-letter'd
With prison'd men's groan.
Still strain the banner-poles
Through the wind's song,
Westward the banner rolls
Over my wrong.
Scheme | ABXCABD CEEFCFC DBDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001 1011 10110 11001 100100 1011 100101 1101 10011 111111 110110 1101 011110 11011 110101 1011 100101 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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