This is an analysis of the poem The Foolish Traveller; Or, A Good Inn Is A Bad Home that begins with:

There was a Prince of high degree,
As great and good as Prince could be; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddcc ccbb eeXf gebbee bbff cchh aaii bbaa bbbb jjkk ffcc aaee lgmlhX fflX nnll e aamm ccbb hcihee bXbb mmcc bbhlelhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,1,4,4,6,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11101110 110110001 01110101 110100111 11010101 11010101 11010111 01010101 110101001 11110001 01111101 011001110 010101110 011101010 110111010 010100101 10010111 11110110 11010101 010 10 1010 110101110 111111010 110101010 11010101 11011111 110111010 100111010 110101011 110010101 11011101 11010101 010110101 11010101 11111101 11110101 01011101 11110001 110010101 01010101 1100100011 110011011 01010101 11010101 1100111001 11011101 11110111 110100101 100101101 01010101 01000101 01011101 11010101 10110101 11010111 11110101 01011101 110 10 001 11111101 001111110 01110110 00111111 01110111 11110111 11010111 01010101 11010011 01010101 1010 11010101 01010101 10010111 01010101 010100101 01100111 01010011 110100101 10010111 11 1 10101 101101110 011111010 01010101 0100111010 011101011 11011101 01011101 01010111 10101101 01000101 11000101 11111101 010010111 011 1 011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, his, to, every, your are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of The Foolish Traveller; Or, A Good Inn Is A Bad Home;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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