This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Student's Tale; The Falcon Of Ser Federigo that begins with:

One summer morning, when the sun was hot,
Weary with labor in his garden-plot,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcccddeeaaccff ggddaaddhhbbcc ccccaaccddhhiX jjbXcckkiXaabb cciilX ccbbaaddbbcc ffllbbgXaaiilliiggmmaaaalliicc llffiicccciigX kkccaaaajjnn ggddaaccggjjllddoocccc llccggbj ccbbddccaaXgXabb kkcccccciXggcXkkdXcciXccpp ccaXaajj ffllllggggjj bjppbbjjllccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,14,14,14,6,12,30,14,12,22,8,16,26,8,12,16,12,8,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 1001000101 1011010101 1100010101 0011100110 1001010101 0111010101 0101010101 1001010101 0111010101 0101011101 0101010101 1101010100 0111000101 0111110101 1010010101 1100010101 0011000111 1101010011 0011010001 0101010101 0101110111 0101001101 0101001101 1101111101 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 0100010101 0100011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010011 10110000101 1111011111 0101011111 1100010111 1001000101 0111000101 1001100101 0101110111 0111110101 1101010101 1001111001 1101010101 1100011101 1100011001 0101000101 1011110111 0011100100 0111010101 0101011111 1001010101 1101111101 1001011111 1111111111 0110111101 1101010001 111011101 0111001101 1011011111 0111011101 1010001111 0101101101 1111011101 0011010101 1111110001 1001110101 1101010101 1110010101 1100011101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010001 1100010100 1101010101 1111000101 1011010101 1010010001 1101010101 0011011101 10001010111 0101110111 01010101001 1101011101 11010001100 1101000001 1111010101 1001010101 010101001001 1001010101 01010011011 1101110101 01010110001 1011010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101000101 0101110101 1101010011 1011110101 0010010001 01011100101 1101011101 1111110101 1101000100 0111010111 1011000101 1101110101 1011100101 10010111101 01011100001 0101111111 10010010001 0101110100 0101000101 11010101001 1111010111 1101011101 11111010001 1111000101 1100010111 11010010101 11111010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101110001 0101110101 0101110101 1011000011 1110111111 1101010100 1101110001 0101011101 0101010101 0111001011 1111010101 1101010001 1101000101 0101110111 1101010111 1101010001 1001011101 01011100101 01110100101 1100110101 0111000111 0011010001 0100011101 1001010001 0101010101 0111010101 1111110111 11010101001 1010010101 0101110101 1111000101 1101010001 1111111101 0101001101 0111010101 1011010101 1101010001 10010100101 1010010101 1011010001 1100011111 1000011101 1110011101 1101011011 11010011101 0111011101 0101010101 01110010001 11001101110 0111011001 1110010101 0001010101 0101101111 1101010101 1101010011 0101000101 1101100101 1111010101 1011000101 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101111111 0101010101 11001011101 1001111101 1100110111 10100011111 1100010101 0101011001 1111110001 11010101110 1101010101 0101101101 1111111111 0111001100 0101001101 01100110111 1110001101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010101 1101010111 0101010100 1001010111 10010100101 1100011101 0111010111 1111010101 0001000101 0111000111 0101000101 0111011111 11000100101 01001100101 0101111101 1101011001 1011000101 1011010001 0111110101 1010110101 1101000101 1101011111 01001010101 1101010101 1111000101 1111011101 1101010001 0101110101 1101010100 1110111101 1100011101 1101110011 1101110101 1011001101 11010101110 1100010101 0101110001 1011011011 1101110111 11010010111 0101011011 1100110111 1100010011 1111010010 1111110101 1111010101 0101010110 0101010001 0101010101 1011110111 1101010101 1100010101 1101111101 1101111101 0111111000 1111110101 1001010001 1111000111 1001100101 11111101001 1001011101 0101010111 1100010101 1101000100 0011011101 1101011101 1010000101 1011001111 10011001101 1101010111 0100010101 1101001001 1111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 280
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, his, only, of, he, her, your, to, so are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word when 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 Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Student's Tale; The Falcon Of Ser Federigo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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