This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Poet's Tale; The Birds Of Killingworth that begins with:

It was the season, when through all the land
The merle and mavis build, and building sing... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc adadaeaX afafafgg Xhihihgg Xgdgdgff fafafadX jkjkjkll amamamaa jhjhjXll kakakall fbfbfbll gegeXekk dadadabb lflflfmm gfgfgfll hnhnhnjj ggggggjj XdXdXXoo hghghgkk mmmmmmpX fgfgfXgg pgpgpgde lmlmlmgg aaaagaaa leldldoo hlhlhlff qoqoqojj lblblbff fff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 0111011101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 01000110001 1100010111 11110010001 0101011101 11010010011 01010101101 1101011100 1101010001 1011010100 1011010111 1111011101 0101010101 1010110111 0101011101 0100010111 1100010111 1101010001 0111100101 011100100111 11010010100 01001110001 11010111001 1001010001 1100010101 0101110101 1111110101 0101001101 1011010110 0101010101 0101010101 1011010101 1111100101 01010001001 0100110111 0111010101 1001010101 0101010101 0111101101 1001000101 1101110111 1011111111 1111010011 111100100 0101010101 0100110101 0101110101 1101010100 01001110101 0101110001 10111010101 1101110001 0001001101 0101000101 1010010101 1101111011 1101010001 0101000101 1110010111 1111011011 1101010001 00010011111 0101010011 01110010111 1101110101 11001011111 1001010101 1101110101 1101000111 0101000101 0101010111 01010101001 1100011111 1001011111 11000111001 1001010101 1111000101 1010000101 11001010101 11010100101 1101010111 0111101111 0101001111 1101010011 10010100010 00010100110 0100010101 11011100010 0101010100 010100010010 0111110111 01110110011 1111010101 0011000101 01010010101 10010100101 0111011101 1001000101 1011111101 1101110101 11011100101 0011111101 1111011101 11110101001 1011110101 1011011111 1101110101 1111010001 1111110101 1111110111 0101111100 0110010001 1111110101 10110001101 11000001110 11110101010 11001010111 01110010001 1100010101 11010010001 1111000101 10111011101 001001000101 1101110101 1011110011 0101110111 1011010101 1101011001 0101110001 1110110111 1101010111 0101010011 11110100101 0110010001 1101010110 1101010101 0011001101 0111101100 11001011111 1100010111 1101110011 110110011 100111001001 1011010101 1001000101 1001011111 1001000101 1101010111 1111110100 1100011100 1110010111 0101010100 1111010011 0101110101 1111110111 1101010111 00111101001 0101010011 0101110111 1101010111 1111011100 11110101010 0101110011 0101010101 11010100101 1111110101 1001010101 1101010001 1111011111 1111010011 10010011101 11010100100 1101010001 101110110111 0101010101 1101011111 1101010101 1011010011 0100010111 0101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1101000101 1001010101 0101011101 10010011111 1101111111 0101001111 01011110101 0111001100 10010000111 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 10010011001 0101010101 0101010101 0111011101 1101011111 1001000101 1101011111 0111010101 1111010111 10110100101 1101000101 0101000101 0100010101 00101000111 0111110011 1101010001 1011110101 0100110001 10101010111 0111011111 1101010110 0111001101 01010000101 0111010101 1101011101 1001010111 0101011101 1100010101 1100110101 0111010111 1011001101 011000010001 110100011100 1101010101 11011101001 0101011101 0101100101 1101010101 1010010101 1111010101 10110110011 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • 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; and, of, as, in, his, or, your are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 'think at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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