This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Poet's Tale; Charlemagne that begins with:

Olger the Dane and Desiderio,
King of the Lombards, on a lofty tower... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXacdefX gcfXbgeXhaX abghX biihdfdegaXajbgaXif aaghXfjbjhffiXfcffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,5,19,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001100100 10010101010 11010100101 1101010001 0011011101 0101010101 1100010101 1101011101 1101010111 01001111101 0111110101 11001000101 1101010101 10010100101 0100010111 1101010111 1011111101 10010011111 01010011010 1101011101 10011100110 1101011111 1101110101 0100011101 01011000101 11010001101 0101011111 1101010001 0101010101 00010010101 10010011101 0101110101 1101111111 1110010001 1001110001 1100111101 1101010001 10010110100 1001010101 1111110101 1101110011 11100111001 1011010101 01010110010 01110011010 11010101010 0101010101 0101011101 1100010101 0011111101 0011010100 01111101010 110010111011 0111011011 01010111010 0101010111 01110101010 1101010001 1101010101 0101011001 10010110001 0101100001 1110110011 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, he, his, of, iron, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, were, and 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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