This is an analysis of The Prisoner by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I lash and writhe against my prison bars,
And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd . .…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc bdbd ebeb fdfd caca ebebXacac
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111011101 1101010101 1111010101 0101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010010 1111111111 1111110101 1011110101 11011101101 1111111101 1011111101 1100111101 1111010100 0101010001 1101110111 0011101111 1101010101 1111010101 1101101011 0111110101 1110110101 11010111001 1101011101 1101010101 0101000101 0111001001 1111011101 1101101111 1111010101 1101001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, her, of, my
Anaphora
and, i
