This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Poet's Tale; Lady Wentworth that begins with:

One hundred years ago, and something more,
In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at her tavern door,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccddbbeeaaccffgg hhaaccaaii ddggiiiiggjXffffcc ggcckkiiaabbiiccggffhhaajjglbbbbbb iieehh hhffccffgg fXjjccccaa hhmgnXbbgmiinnbXiiccddjj aaffiiggbbglaaccgX ffkXXaffiXaXffhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,18,34,6,10,10,24,18,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100011101 0111010101 1101110101 1101000100 1101111101 0101010101 0100010101 0101110001 0111010101 0101001101 1101111101 1101010101 0111011001 01011101001 1001010111 1001010101 1011011101 1011110001 1111110101 0101010101 1101010001 0101010101 10001000101 1101011101 0110011011 1001000101 0101110101 1101100011 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0101010011 0101011101 0101010001 11001010111 1001010111 1001010001 0101011001 1111011101 1111101111 1101011111 0101111101 1101011101 1101111111 011100101101 0101010101 1001010111 1111010111 1101110001 0100010101 1101001111 01010100001 1100110111 1001011111 11010101001 0101001101 0101011101 1101110101 11010100101 1011010111 1001011101 11010100111 10110011101 0101010101 1011110101 0101101000 0101010101 1111000111 0100110101 10010100001 1011010101 1101010101 101111111 1101001101 0110010101 1011011100 1101011101 100110101001 11000010101 01001001101 1101010101 00101001101 1101010111 0100110111 0100010001 11010101001 11110010111 0101110111 00110011001 11011111001 0111010101 0111010101 0111010101 0110011101 1111011111 00110101101 1101111101 1010111100 1110110101 00111101000 1111010101 11011011101 0101110111 0101110101 1011110101 0101010101 0101010101 0111110101 1101010001 01110111011 11010010011 1100110101 01001100001 0110010100 0101010001 0101010101 0111000101 1100010101 1101010111 11010100001 1101010101 1101000101 1101010111 0100010101 0100100101 11010101001 1111010111 01010100101 0001010101 11010100111 1101111101 11011101101 11110101001 01001000101 1101110011 0101001101 0101011101 1011001101 1001010010 1101011101 100001000100 1101110101 0111000111 0101010100 1101011111 01010010001 1100010111 11100100101 1011101110 1101111101 01001010101 1111010101 1011100101 111010111 010010101010 1101010011 1111110101 010100101001 1001011101 11011111000 0101010111 10010111010 1110011001 1011000111 01001011111 1011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 710
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • 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, her, to, and, in, by are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • central theme;
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