This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Student's Second Tale; The Baron Of St. Castine that begins with:

Baron Castine of St. Castine
Has left his château in the Pyrenees,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcdXccd eefggffccfhbgbhg fgfgceebcciibXXbb eccejkkj bbbbjjjj bcceXclXcXeXdfdkkfXeddacaXX dXldfflbiibeeebiiXmbmnn bbfbXffbdXbbccbjeXj eieeiajXj jnfnjjfoociic Xiddiiffiikkf iccenXeacecejXX cppccXX eeieiiie Xdiiccgghhhhhjffj ljljggmbbmfccbbfiigigbbneXneoX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,16,17,8,8,27,23,19,9,13,13,15,7,8,17,30,9,22,6,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001010 110100100 11010101 1110100110 010100101 11010101 10100011 01110101 01110001 101001101 01010111 110101111 10101101 1010101011 011000101 11010101 01110101 10011001 11111101 11000101 11011101 11100101 01010001 101110001 11010101 10111101 011100101 0010101101 101011101 10100111 000100101 10011111 11010111 10111111 11010111 1010101001 011010111 0010101101 10110100 1011110 1010100100 11110111 10010101 111100100 11111010 110101010 11100101 0101001011 11011001 11011111 010100101 111011111 010100101 110100101 00100100111 1100100101 1010010111 11101111 111010011 110010111 01110101 001111101 1110100101 111111101 101010101 10110101 11110111 110010001 010011100 110100111 11010100 010111011 101111111 0010100101 1010110001 001011001 10110101 11010011 011110101 11010001 100010001 110010100 10100111 0111001010 11100111 001001010 101010011 10100011 10100101 011011101 010100111 01001101101 101111111 1101110111 001011111 11111101 01011101 10100101 10011100 010010111 1001011001 010011101 0010100101 01001001000 01000001001 101010011 11000101 1110101101 011110111 1010101101 11110111 11110101 11011101 101001001000 110010101 011110101 0101101001 1101011001 10110110101 1010011101 10010101 110110101 10110001 111101101 11010101 11110011 11010100 101010001 010111001 110011101 101010101 010110101 11110111 1011001010 11010111 110010100 110100001 010100101 101000111 110111111 110001001 1010100111 111101001 001100101 101100101 01010101 001010101 10110101 10111011 110111101 11001011 11001100 11000111 01010101 10010101 01010101 01000101 11011101 11010111 110100101 10010001 01000111 01010111 1111101001 111101111 010100101 10010111 101011011 101110101 111010101 11101001010 0101001001 010010101 110110111 11110001 101010101 1010110100 10110111 01110101 01010101 11000101 10010101 01011101 1101010 11010010 001010101 01111111 11010111 01010011 001010111 11011101 11101101 01001101 11010011 0010101101 1010111001 0100111001 11101111 10101101001 010010001 11010101 0100101100 101010101 111101001 011000100 11010111 01010101 00010101 11010001 1010010101 011100101 01010101 010000101 10011101 11111111 101100001 11000101 100010111 01000100 010001001 01011001 01110001 110101001 11010111 0101101 01010001 01111111 00110001 11111111 11110001 10110001 111100101 100100111 10010101 01110100 101100100 11110111 101011111 11110101 11110101 10010111 01010011 110101001 111100101 11110101 11011001011 100001101 101011101 01010100 101010101 010110111 10111011011 010101011 11010001 1110101001 1110101101 1010011101 110010111 0010110101 0011100011 11110011 01111101 11110101 11010101 10100101001 111011111 11010101 1010101101 1010010101 11011101 111100101 11110001 01110111 11010101 01110111 11010011 11011101 11101101 010100101 101100101 11010101 01011101 10010010 11010011 01011101 0100100101 010011101 01011111 01011101 110110101 11010101 01110111 0100110101 11101111 011100101 011100111 11001001010 111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 298
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, of, his, no, at, dust, nor, hath, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, so, and, there, looking, of, has, no, is, a, he, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words his, and, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word bride at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dust connects the lines.

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