This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Landlord's Tale; The Rhyme Of Sir Christopher that begins with:
It was Sir Christopher Gardiner,
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccd cecceeec ffbccdb gcgffc hihichcggh jjgggggjjhhjfaXffhfhhkhhkh chhcchhhchllh ccjjggbcbXc mmhgghggggbggdffhhbXhd bbcccchhhmmhhhgg ccnccgXXnnccfccfcf gjXjjjgj hhbbjXbj aXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,7,6,10,26,13,11,22,16,18,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110010 1001010 010101001 11010100 10010101 01000100 11111001 0010100101 0100100101 10111101 11010101 11010101 010011101 10100101101 11010101 11110111 111100101 11110011 11010101 01011100 11010111 010110101 11110101 110010111 1101001101 110101001 0010110101 1010110111 110100001 0010111011 1100101001 110101101 110101001 0100100101 1100001001 100111011 111011011 01011101 101001101001 010101101 011001101 111101101 0101101101 11011011011 1101011001 010100101 11101011111 0001010111 111010101 111010101 111110110 101001010 110010001 10101001101 1010100101 11001001101 111100101 100100101 110100101 010101101 010111101 010100101 101010111 010100101 110100101 01010111 11010001 10010100 010100101 1101101001 110110101 10110101 01110111 10010101 11000101 01010111 11110111 1101100101 11111101 1010100101 1110000111 011001101 1101100111 100110101 001011101 1110010101 0010110001 11010111 01010101 110010101 101001001 110111101 10100101001 1100100001 10010111 1011001101 1110010111 010011101 11010101 01010101 1110010100 10101100001 010110111 110110101 1100100111 110101001 0010110011 010101111 0110100100 1111001001 1101101101 101011011 0010101101 0010110101 0110100101 1111010101 10101101011 110011101 11001001101 1010100111 011110101 110010111 11101100011 1101111011 1111000001 01010101 01010101 010101101 01011111 010100101 01110101 101000110 010111010 11010001 11011001 11010101 11010101 01110101 010110101 01010111 111101001 101011111 11010001 010010001 010010101 001010110 011010011 1010010101 1010010100 010011111 10100100101 1001001001 110101001 1010010101 0010110101 010110100 0010110100 010101001 1101000101 1100101100 1001010 011100101 0100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 163
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, life, it, he, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to, his are repeated.
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