This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Musician's Tale; The Ballad Of Carmilhan - Iv. that begins with:

And now along the horizon's edge
Mountains of cloud uprose,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaab cdeed dfggf fhiih djkkj blmml XcXmc ijeej cfeef iXffX dbkkb Xhcch fdeed dfeef cXffX iffff dhddh echhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110100101 100110 11010101 0111111 011101 01010101 111101 01010101 11010001 110001 11011111 010101 11010001 010001001 010001 11110001 111110 11010111 11011011 110001 01011101 110011 11010101 11010101 110111 11111101 110101 010010001 11010101 111101 11110010 001101 10010101 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 0110101 011010101 110111 11011101 110101 10110101 11100101 1100111 1101101001 010100 01010101 11010101 101000 01011111 1100101 010100101 01010001 110001 11010100 111001 10010101 11110101 100101 11010001 110001 01010101 010101111 110101 110101001 110101 11010001 01110001 010001 01010101 110100 11010111 111100001 101000 11111111 111111 11110101 11111111 110101 11001101 1101111 01100111 111110101 010101 01110101 010101 01011111 01011101 0100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; black, and, some, they are repeated.

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

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

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