This is an analysis of the poem Tale Xi that begins with:

ARABELLA.
Of a fair town where Doctor Rack was guide,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbcca ddbbddccccddeeffaaccgghhiXbbXfjjbbeehhkkddffggaaaaaahhbbffddeeaaaabbllccmmeeddiiaahhaf aggaad Xc bbhXaaaaaaccmmhhaaaajjfXXXaannbbddddXbbXXfXhhkkaaaabbhhXfaaffhhjXaaggaakknnaaaabbf XaajjaahhiieeeekkcckkaaaaggddbbbbeedXjjooeeddkkX hhnnhhbbiinnaahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,86,6,2,82,48,46,6,14,2,5,28,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010 0011110111 0101010111 1101011101 1101110101 0101010111 1001110001 100101101 1 1001010101 01001000101 1011010101 10011111010 1001011101 11001010101 1001110101 1101011011 0101001101 0101011101 1101110101 0101010101 0111011101 1101011101 0101110111 0100101011 1101110111 1011010111 1011110001 1101010101 11010101011 01010101001 1001010101 0100010111 1110011101 1101010001 0111011101 1101010110 011010101 1101010111 1111110101 0101010101 01100010101 0101010101 1011111101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010111 1001110101 1101010101 1011110111 1101111111 1111011111 1001010111 1101010101 1111000101 110100010001 1101000101 1101011101 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 0101000101 0101011101 0101010101 1101011111 0101010101 1101010101 11001110101 1111010101 1101100101 1001010101 1101010101 0111010111 1111010001 0101010111 0101010101 1101111101 11001100101 1101100101 0110110111 1101010101 1111011111 1111110111 1101110101 110010010101 01010111001 100111011 0101010101 1101010101 0001010101 1101010101 111111011 1 1101011101 0001011101 0111111101 01011100101 1111011111 10 11011101 01 1101010101 0111110001 1101011111 0101011101 1101110101 1101010111 10111100101 1001010101 1100110101 1001011100 0011010111 1101010101 1101010111 0111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111011101 1101111101 1101010101 0101011101 1101110101 0101011101 0111010101 1101011101 1101011111 1111011111 1011010101 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 110111101001 1011010101 01110001001 1101111101 11010010101 0111011110 0101001101 11110101001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010001 11100011101 0101010101 1101000101 0101111101 1011110101 11010001010 01011010111 0101010001 11001111101 1101011101 0101010011 0101111001 0101010101 1001000101 1101110001 1100010101 11010100011 1101011101 0101110111 1001110110 1111110101 1001000111 1101010111 0101110101 1011010101 1101010011 11010100101 1001010101 1001110101 0111100101 1011010101 01111100101 01010101001 1101101101 0101010101 0001010001 11110001011 1 0101011101 0111100101 0101000101 0100110101 1001010101 1100010101 1101110101 11010010101 1101000101 0101011101 1001010101 1101011101 1111010111 1111010101 1111110101 1101010111 0101001101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010100 1101111101 0101011101 1101111101 1111110101 1111000101 1111010101 11010100101 0101010101 1111110011 0101110101 1001000111 1111110100 11010010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101001000 0111010101 1111010101 1111010101 01110110101 1110000101 01110010111 1101111001 10111101101 1011110001 1101110100 110111000 1 1101010101 1010001101 0101011101 1001011111 1101000101 1101010001 1101011101 0101110101 11010000101 1101110101 0111011101 10010011101 0011010101 1101001101 11011111001 1101010101 1101110101 0111011111 11000100101 1101010101 1101010100 1101010101 110100001001 1101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101001101 1101100101 1001011111 1101110001 1101011111 1111111101 11011101001 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101110101 0011010101 001101011 1 1111011001 1011010001 1111110111 11010011101 110101011 1 1101000101 1111010111 01001011101 1101110001 1101000111 11010010101 1011010010 1011111111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 110101110100 1 010111011 1 1111111101 11010110101 1101110101 011111111 1 1111011101 1101011111 1101010101 0101000101 01110001001 11010100101 1011000101 0101011111 0101010101 1101111101 11001110111 11101010001 1101010101 0111010101 1101 110111 1101110111 11011100101 1011111111 1101010101 1101010101 1101001101 1101110011 0111110101 0101010101 1111111101 101111110 1 0111111101 0011001101 1101011101 1101011110 11010100101 1101111101 0101011011 1101010101 0101111101 1001100101 1111011101 1001100101 1111010101 1101110101 1101111101 1011010001 010101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1062
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 351
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, not, she, his, to, their, he, what, had, as, your, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, ere, his, no, 'oh, and, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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