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

THE BROTHERS.
Than old George Fletcher, on the British coast... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcXbbdXea eddbbbbeeddddddffccbbffddbbeeddb ggddbbgghhiieejjkkddbblliilXXXbbiXbbllX lbbggkkkaaddkkgXccmmmddXbddbbddmmddbbhhmmiikkbXbbbXXnbXdddXddddmmaaa oobXXpddkkddiihhbbXfkXb bkXddllkkiiaakXccbbbXllX liikkf ddXmf eeggeXffbbkkccf ddmmiikkkkppXXbbllkXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,32,39,68,23,24,6,5,15,78,55,41,7,9,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 10111100101 0101000110 0101110101 1101111101 0101110110 1001010101 1101110010 1 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111010111 1101010101 1001110101 1001000101 0111111101 1111010101 1101010011 0101010111 1101100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000111 1001010101 1011011101 0101000101 1111101101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010101 1011100101 11001110101 1101111101 1111011101 1111010101 1101110101 111111111 1 1101011111 1101100101 1101111101 1101110001 1101111001 1101111101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010111 1101011101 0101110111 1011010101 10110101001 11010101010 11010101010 1111010001 0011010101 1111011101 1111100101 1101011111 1101111110 11100011101 0111010101 10111111101 1101010101 1011010101 1011010001 11110111100 1101011101 1111010001 1101010001 1101011111 11011101010 1001011001 1111110101 0101001101 0100010001 1101011111 01 1101010101 0101110101 1101100101 0101011101 1011111101 1011110111 1111010111 1111010111 1101111101 1111010101 0101011001 1111010111 1111111101 1111111101 1101011111 1011010101 1011110101 1101011101 0101010101 110100010101 0111011101 1011010101 1101110110 01010010101 1101010101 1111010101 1001011101 11010111001 1101010101 1011011101 1111010101 1101001101 11010101001 1101010101 1111111101 1101110101 1111011101 0101111111 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111011101 1101011111 1011011111 1111011101 11010110000 1101010111 0111010001 1101010101 1010010110 11010101010 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1011000101 0011010101 1110010101 1101110001 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1001110001 01111101001 1011000101 01010100101 0101011101 011101010 1 1101110001 1011110101 1101011111 11011101100 0101110101 1101110101 1101011101 1001010101 0101110100 0111110111 1011010101 1101100111 1101100111 1111110101 1001010111 0101000111 1001010101 0111010111 0111110111 1101110101 1111010111 0101110101 1101101101 1011010101 0101110101 1101100101 1101001101 1001001101 11100010101 0111100101 0101110101 1111010011 1101010001 11111100101 0101110110 1011011101 1111010101 01010111001 0111010001 0101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 0111010111 1101010111 000101010100 1 1101000111 1101010101 0101000101 1011001101 110111010 1 1101000101 0101100110 0101010101 111011010 1 11010110001 0111011101 1001010101 11010011001 0111000101 1111110101 1111111111 1111010101 1111010001 1011010101 1110010101 1111010111 1111010101 110111010 1 0101000101 1101011001 1001010101 1111010111 0101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 1001011111 1101110101 0101110001 1011011101 01010111001 1101010111 0101010111 0101011101 1111010001 1110010111 1101010001 1111011111 1101110111 1101011101 1111011100 1101000101 1101010110 1101111101 1101111101 1111110110 1101010111 1101110001 1001010101 1101010101 1101110111 0101011101 01001100101 1101011101 1011000101 1101001001 1011010101 0101000101 1101010101 0111011101 1111111101 1011110101 1101100101 1101010111 11110101101 1111010101 01010000101 0111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 0101100101 01010101010 11011111010 1101000101 1101011101 0101010101 0111010111 11111101101 01001010101 0111000101 1111100101 1111010101 11001010101 0101100101 1101011101 1101010101 0111010101 0101110010 0011100101 0111011101 0101100101 1101010101 0101010111 10111010 1 0111110001 1111010101 1111010101 0111110110 0101110101 1111110001 1001011101 1001010101 1111110101 1001111101 1101111101 1101110101 1111010101 11010101100 0101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1110110001 1111101101 1111010101 111000101 0011010101 1101100001 11011110111 1111110111 1111000101 1111110001 1111110101 0111010111 10111000101 1111110101 1111110101 1101110101 1101011101 0101111101 1101100111 0101010101 10101011101 1111011101 1111011101 1101110110 1101111111 1101010101 1011110101 1111111111 0101011001 1111000111 1011010101 11101010101 1101110101 1011000111 0111111101 0101100111 111111011 1 1101111101 1101010111 1101110101 1101100111 1001011101 1011010111 1111010011 1101111001 1101111101 1011010101 1101000111 1011010001 1111010001 1111110101 0111010011 1101000101 0101011101 1101010101 1101011101 111111111 1101111101 11111111100 11110101010 1001010101 01001011110 1101011111 1101110101 1101011101 010011111001 1101110111 01111100111 1111001101 1101010101 1101111101 10100100101 1011010101 1011011101 0101010101 1101011111 111101110101 1 1101110101 1001000101 1101010101 1111011101 1111111101 111111011 1 11010110111 1101010110 0101010101 1101010111 1001010100101 1111010101 1111011111 101111110 1 11110101010 1111011101 0101010111 1111010111 1101110101 0111010101 1111010101 110101110101 1111010001 1011000101 010101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 212
  • Amount of lines: 426
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, his, to, he, ', would, with, my, so, you, they, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, or, and, the, so, all are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word to at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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