This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Spanish Jew's Tale; The Legend Of Rabbi Ben Levi that begins with:

Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, read
A volume of the Law, in which it said,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb ccaaddXebXfX XXaaXbddfg aahhaaeX ddgXXhbX hhXXaaaX eXddaXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,10,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 0100010101 11110111110 1111111111 0101010101 0101011111 1101011101 1101011101 11010010111 1001010011 1111010101 1101010101 010011111110 0101010111 1111111101 10011010101 0101111101 11011101000 1101010111 1111010101 1101110011 1111100101 1111011101 0101110001 1111000101 1111011101 1111000101 1101010101 1100010001 0111001101 1101110101 0101011111 1101010111 1101010101 1001011101 11111001110 1101011101 1101010111 010010111100 10110100110 0101110011 01001010101 1101110101 1101111111 01010101001 1011110101 1101111111 1001111101 1001010101 0101011111 1101011001 0101011101 0111010101 1110010101 1101111001 11110010101 1001101011 1101010001 0101010111 1111011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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; his, thou, and, i, unseen are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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