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

At Atri in Abruzzo, a small town
Of ancient Roman date, but scant renown,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabXccddaaeeeeaa ffbbffbXaa gghhddff hhiijj ffjjhXggaa XcffiihhddeeeX ffaabXgggX ffggiibbggaa ffbbhhjjggjjfffX iibbjjhhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,10,8,6,10,14,10,12,16,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100010011 0101011101 1011010111 1101010101 1111011001 1111010111 0101010101 1101111101 1011100101 0101010111 1101000111 1111010101 1001010111 1101010101 1101011111 0110011101 1101000101 1101010011 1101010101 1101011101 0101111101 0101111101 10001011111 1011000101 1111000101 100101010 1101110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101011001 1101001101 1101110111 1100000111 1111011111 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 11110100101 0111000101 1111110001 0101110111 1111100111 0111110101 1001101101 1111110001 1111010101 1111010100 1011110001 00110101001 1100010101 11111111011 1101101101 0001000101 0101110101 00100010111 1100011101 0101000101 0101000101 1101110111 1101100101 1101000101 1011010111 0101000101 01010010011 1111011101 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 1011010101 1010011101 110101010 100010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101000101 01110100111 0110000101 0101010101 0111110001 0101010101 1001010101 1111010101 0100110101 1111111001 1101010101 0101000111 111111111 1101111101 1001000101 01001001101 1101010111 1101111101 1101110101 1101010011 1111111101 1111010101 1101011101 1101111111 0100111001 10011111100 0101010101 1101010001 0111011101 1101110101 1111111001 1110011111 0100011101 0101101001 10110100101 01010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • 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; to, and, in, loved, his, he, of, what are repeated.

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