This is an analysis of the poem The Three Tailors that begins with:
I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time,
Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXba ccaddX eeaccX bbacca bbaeea eeacca eeaccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111101 11011001100 101101 101101001101 011001001001 11101 10101011011110 11001001011 101101 11111001111 11011001011 10110100 111101111001 101000111001 101101 011011011111 111111101001 11110100 101101101011 11001001101 001101 101011101011 11011011011 1111111 01010101101 11001101111 0101101 100101111001 1110110011011 111101 11101111101 01001001101 101101 1111111101 011101011111 011111 01101001111 01011111001 1011001 10101111110 101111011011 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Three Tailors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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