This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Spanish Jew's Tale; Kambalu that begins with:
Into the city of Kambalu,
By the road that leadeth to Ispahan,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbX cdccdcdXc XXcceefXcfcaabba eecaaccaaccccc ccdgXddghh ccbbffbeeffXX aaiaai bbffcccX XXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,16,14,10,13,6,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000100100 1011100100 1010010101 100100101 1001101100 1011010 010010101 110010101 0010010111 10101101011 0101011001 1010100001 1010101111 11111101100 000100101 1000100100 1011010 111010111 110001111 10100101 11011101 0111001101 0101100100 0101100101 0101011001 111101001 100101101 10010111 010111101 001101101011 01001100101 111101001 111100101 0111011001 1101001101 010110001 00011111 1110100111 1110101001 1010101111 011111111 10100101101 001110111 10100100010 11101101101 101011101 01010101001 1101011001 11101111 110100100 110010111 010011111 1011100101 1101110111 1010010001 110010111 11110111 1111111001 1010101111 1111011101 0010010101 11110111 110111101 110101111 110111101 10101011 110101110 0100110110 1000101101 111011101 0010100101 1001101101 110110101 1011010101 11110101 11110101 011100101 0101100101 110010111 11111101 0110100101 010110100 00010111 1011010 100100101 1111100100 1011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, of, in, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, thou, these are repeated.
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- summary of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Spanish Jew's Tale; Kambalu;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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