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

I trust that somewhere and somehow
You all have heard of Hagenau,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbaacdccd beebfffffeef egeXcgeebbeXb hhbhbeeehhe abeeba ehehehhhhX idid djjkkdffdfll eefeefXeXffeeeeeXffheheXhjjhemem ecceeXammabbkffkfkX jhhjejjeffcfffcfkk addahhdmdmfkkfbhbhbkbjkkj eeeeeeeffe bbhkfXkXeffaaejXeeeXeee efeefbbhmmhmmhhkkmXX eeeeeXeeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,13,11,6,10,4,12,32,19,18,25,10,23,20,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 11110100 01011101 01010101 01010111 11000101 010100111 10110101 110010101 10110101 11110101 11010101 01000011 11010101 01011101 010010011 11010011 01011101 110000100 11110101 01011101 10011101 00110101 11010111 11010111 11000101 11010111 100010100 111100001 110100001 11110001 11010101 01010101 10010101 11000101 01111100 11010101 00110101 11110101 01010101 01010001 11100101 1011011110 10110101 11010101 11110111 11010111 1001001010 11011101 010100001 10010101 10010101 10010101 11000101 1100001 11011 111101 01011 101001 0011111 101111 11111 1111111 111011 11010101 10010101 10010001 00110111 11010101 110100101 10010111 10010001 10110110 11000101 01010001 01111111 11010101 01011101 10011111 10010111 00110101 11010101 10011101 011100101 01111101 01110111 01111000 010010101 110101110 11000111 01010101 11001001 10010111 10110111 010011001 11111011 01001111 01010011 11010101 110001101 01010101 00010001 01010101 110100100 01110101 01010101 01000101 11010101 01011101 110100101 010001001 01110101 10010101 100101001 10010101 01011111 10110111 111111000 110001010 11011101 11110111 111101010 11110111 101100010 10111101 11010101 010010011 01110001 01000011 11010111 11110111 01010111 011111011 0100111001 11000101 10010101 000100111 11010001 11010011 01010101 10000101 01010101 10010001 11010101 10010010 10111101 01110001 11010101 110101001 01110111 01010101 11011101 01010111 01010111 01010111 10010101 11010011 01010101 01000101 01011101 01010101 01000111 01011001 10010101 110010101 11010111 01000101 010101010 11010101 0111000110 11100101 10011101 01000101 10010011 11010111 10110111 01110011 11010101 10010101 11010101 01111111 011100111 01011101 11010101 11010001 11010001 01000111 11011101 110010101 111110000 11100101 10111111 01010101 111100001 11000101 01100111 01011101 10110101 10010001 110101010 01001101 11111111 11010111 01100100 10010011 11010101 11010111 01010101 11110101 11010111 110010101 11010101 11110111 11010011 11011101 10101101 00010001 10010001 11010111 01110101 01011101 11110011 11010101 010101100 11110101 01010011 100100 11100111 01000101 10110011 11110001 01000101 1101000100 10010111 11111101 10011110 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 237
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and, his, that, your, ye, her, at, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the, her, now are repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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).

    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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