This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Sicilian's Tale; The Monk Of Casal-Maggiore that begins with:

Once on a time, some centuries ago,
In the hot sunshine two Franciscan friars... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXcc dedefegg higiXijj jbjbjbjj XkjXjkgg lXlglgdX cjcjcjii fifiXiiijjjjjjhX gmgmhmcc jjjjjjbX bcbcbcii bbbbbbdd iXinincc cbcbcbee Xfififoo ijijiXeeXgcgchii gigigiee eeeeeejX jdjdjdmm daXadaoo Xieieibb idididii ijijijii bjbjgjccijijijdd ghggXgeX djdjdj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110001 00111101010 1011010111 1011011111 1101110101 1001101111 1111010111 0101001101 0111010001 1101010111 11001010101 1011110100 1001011100 1101011101 0101110001 1101010101 01001110100 0101100101 0100110111 1001010001 1101011000 0111010101 1001111101 1101110101 1111011001 1101010101 1100011111 1001001101 0101001101 0101110101 0101000111 1001010001 1111010010 0101001111 1111110001 11110101001 0101110001 0111010001 1101011001 1101100101 1101000101 1101010010 1101011011 1111010111 11110111011 1001010111 1101010101 11011100010 1101001101 0101001101 1100110111 110010010001 110001011 1101110111 1001000101 10110100001 110100101010 1100011101 010100100010 1011110101 100111111010 11110110111 11010010101 1101110001 1101010111 1101010101 1101001101 1111010101 01010101111 1001100101 11111101010 01010000110 1101011111 1101010111 1101111111 11010111001 1101010100 0111110101 1101010011 1101110111 1001010101 1001000111 0111011101 1101000101 1101110001 0111011111 1101010111 1111110110 0101010111 1101011101 01010010101 1001010101 1001110111 1011000101 1101001101 0101110101 0101110101 0101010111 0101110101 1101011101 0111110101 1110110111 1101100101 1011010101 1100010010 1101010101 01110010101 0011010101 0101010101 0011010011 1100010001 0101110100 1101011101 1011010101 0101001011 1111010011 1111011001 1111000111 1101010101 0101000101 1111010110 01010100010 1011010101 010011101010 1011110111 01011001010 1110010001 1101010101 0110011101 1101010001 0101010111 0111010101 0101110111 01011111110 1111011101 1001010001 1101110110 11010101001 1101110001 1101100101 1101110101 1111011100 1101110001 1101010101 1101110011 1100110111 1000000110 00101110001 1011010101 1101010011 1101010110 0001001101 1101000101 1110110101 0101010111 1100011101 1101110111 1101110101 0111011001 11011011110 1001110101 1101110001 1111110101 11001100101 10010010011 0111010101 1101110001 1101000001 1101010111 1011111011 1111010100 1101110111 01111001001 1101001101 1011010101 1111010111 1101010101 1001010001 1001000001 0110011001 1001010101 1101010101 01000100101 1001111101 1001010011 1011110011 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1100111101 1101001111 1111010101 1110010111 1001011101 1111110001 11010100101 0101000101 01010010111 0111010101 11010101101 01010010001 11010101001 1011110111 1101010111 0101010001 0101010101 1101110111 1001110001 1101010101 11110100101 1101010101 1100010001 1101010101 111001001001 1101010101 0101111111 1001110100 1011011101 1101111011 1100011100 0100010111 1111001101 1111010001 0111010001 0111011101 1010111101 1101011101 1011010111 1111110101 1101011101 010101100110 0111010111 1100110101 0101110101 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101111111 0101011101 1001010011 11111101001 1111111111 1001010011 1101011101 01011010110 1111010111 0001010110 0101010101 1001110101 110101111 1111011001 01010101010 1101001111 1101010101 01000100101 1101000101 1111011101 1001111101 11110111010 1111011101 1101110111 1101010111 1101010101 10001010111 1101001111 0101001111 0101010111 1101010101 1001110111 1101001001 0101000111 0101011101 0101010111 0101011111 1001010111 10101111111 1101010111 1101110001 1111000101 1101001111 0011010101 1101111001 1101010101 1101011101 1101010111 0111011001 10010100001 1101000111 1101111000 11001000101 0111010001 0011110101 0101011111 11101010100 1110010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 296
  • 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, you, his, i, my, her, of, he, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, my, you, his are repeated.

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

    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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