This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Sicilian's Tale; King Robert Of Sicily that begins with:

Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane
And Valmond, Emperor of Allemaine,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbcdXaaXXeedDXXffaXgg ddddeeddhhii ddcXeXhXeejjdd AXbcddkkcceell ffddccii eeiiXcaXiimmggnX iicciifX lXeeiiggoo aaaadd dXccaaeXppnnmXfX llXallhheepqeerrddeeXd cchhiieepqiiaXaadXhh ppddaasscceX ccaaqpnniiXceeddhXaX hhccdDXqfXXaaeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,14,14,8,16,8,10,6,16,22,20,12,20,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100100100101 1101000100 100000100010 01010100111 1111110101 1101101000 111101011001 0101010101 1101100100 0111000100 1101010101 100110111 1111011101 1111010011 1101000110 1011010100 10111010111 1011100101 1101110001 101101110110 1101111101 1101010011 1101010101 0111011111 11011100111 1001010111 1100011101 1111011111 1101011011 1101110111 11010100101 1100001111 011000111 1011010011 1101010001 0100010101 1101000101 10010101010 1101110101 10101011110 01010100001 10110100110 1011110101 0111110101 1011001111 1101111111 1100010001 1101010001 100100100101 1101000100 100000100010 100010110010 0101111100 1111010101 1101110001 0111110011 1101011101 0111000101 0101110101 1011111011 0111110101 1001110001 110110101 1001010101 1101010111 11100001101 0111010101 0001100101 1100010001 1101010101 0101010001 01001110101 1101010101 0001010001 11111111110 0111010001 1101110111 01010111110 1100110101 1101011111 0101000101 1101101101 1111011101 1111001111 1101110111 1101110001 1011011111 1110011101 01010010101 1111010101 0111110101 01001000111 1101010111 0011001101 1101000111 1101011101 1011011101 1001110101 0111010101 1101010011 1001000101 100110010101 0111011111 1101110101 1111110101 0100011001 1001010001 0101010111 1101010101 1000010111 1111010001 1011011000 1001011101 0101010101 11001011111 11001110101 0101010101 1101111100 1101011101 1101010111 1011001111 0101010101 1101010001 1010100101 1101010111 010101111101 1110010111 0100010111 0101000100 10110101101 1101001101 11011001001 0100110101 1101000101 1101001101 1111000101 11010001001 0001010100 11000110101 1011001101 0111110101 01001010101 1101010011 0101110101 0101110001 0101010101 1101101100 0101011111 0101001111 01001011101 1001010101 1011010001 1001010101 1101010101 1001010101 0011011101 1101110101 1011010100 0111110011 0101000101 1111111101 1011111110 0101010101 1101010001 01001011011 0101111111 1011010001 1101010100 0101010111 1101110101 0100010001 0101110101 1011010101 11110111001 1001010101 01010100101 11010101001 1101010101 1101010001 110101010100 1101010111 10010001001 1001010101 0111010001 1001010100 1001010111 1111011001 1101010011 11010001010 1001010101 11001100110 1001010101 1110010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 1011010100 01111101010 11111101010 01011001001 0101010101 1101010111 1101100101 0101110001 1111010011 1101000110 1101010100 1101000101 1111011101 1101110101 1001111101 11100010101 01001010101 11010011111 100101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • 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; of, and, his are repeated.

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

    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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