This is an analysis of The Prisoner by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
I count the dismal time by months and years
Since last I felt the green sward under foot,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacXcccc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011110 1111011101 101101110 1101111101 1101110101 11010111101 1101011101 01110001001 0101010101 110101011 1100010101 1001010111 11011100101 01111000001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14

