This is an analysis of The Captive Knight by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
The prisoned thrush may brook the cage,
The captive eagle dies for rage.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaX bccbDDeffeDD ghhgDD ieeiDD heeheX
- Stanza lengths: 3,12,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01011101 01010111 10001 1010101 10111001010 10101001110 1010111 101100100111 11010100101 1110101 111110101 1110110101 11100111 101100100111 11010100101 11101101 1111010101 111010001 10100101 101100100111 11010100101 11101101 00110110111 101110111 1010011 101100100111 11010100101 11111111 101111111 111100101 1111101 101100100111 11010010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, they
Anaphora
the, and, cease, they, sound
