This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Musician's Tale; The Mother's Ghost that begins with:
Svend Dyring he rideth adown the glade;
I myself was young!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaCddaaAaaaaaccaaeXXXaaeXfXgghXddiicchXhhaXhhaXjjcccciXkkaaeeXcffaacccXffiilBlC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101001 11111 1111111001 111011001 010011100 101010101 11101101 1100100101 1101101001 10111110101 11110111101 111101101 111100001 1101101011 11011001001 0010111001 110010111 11101011011 11001101 1111110111 11000110 111100111 001011101 010101001 010100101 111010111 110010101 111101101 111111111 011100101 111110101 10111110 110101001 1100110101 110101101 011101001 11100101 110101001 110111101 11001011010 10111001 111011111 110110101 111111001 1110111 11011111 1110111 11111101 111010101 110110101 111001011 011100111 011110111 1011100101 100101011 11111011001 00010111 110101011 110111111 110101111 11011101 110110111 110110110 110100111 111011011 110011101 11010101 10011101 11010101 010101101 11010101 110111001 010110111 11010111 010110111 111010111 010110111 11111 110111001 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3156
- Average number of words per stanza: 606
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, and, she, mother, i, her, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the are repeated.
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- summary of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Musician's Tale; The Mother's Ghost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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