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

The battle is fought and won
By King Ladislaus, the Hun,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabBcddX bbbbbBdXddcc XXdedXdX bbffgbXgaX dddhddhdX eeddXfaaahh iifjXDkfkX ddbbfdX gdXbXdgbggb ddhdddXddX llgdllgddddd gaaXaXaXdDag amaXmeaaeaeaeX bbbXjXffddbaaX eedhhdhnnXXhgX kakaaeggeaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,8,10,9,11,10,7,11,10,12,12,14,14,14,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111 1110001 01001111 1010101 1010101 0010101 111111 00100100 0010001 1000111 0110101 0010111 0010111 1010101 100111 0100100 011101 010101 1100101 0010101 11111100 1110110 1110111 1110101 1010101 1101001 1100111 100101 0010001 001001001 1101001 100101 1100101 100111 111110 011111 101001001 1110101 11001011 1110101 1010101 101001 0010101 10110001 1010111 1111101 0100101 1110101 010111 1011111 1111011 110101 1100100 110111 1101111 1111111 111001 1110101 11101011 10100111 0101011 0110010 001001 0101011 1101001 001011001 1101001 1100100 1011101 1101001 100111 11111011 111101 11111101 0010001 1110101 011101 0100100 0010101 1111010 10100101 1100101 00101001 00100111 1010111 10101001 1011001 1101011 111111 11011101 110011 101111001 1011111 1010101 111101 110111 110111 10101001 111111 1011001 1011001 001111 0011101 111101 1001001 1111101 00101001 11011001 11011101 011101 11011011 100100100 10111001 1110101 11001001 0110110 01011 0101011 0101111 10100101 10100001 1110101 1010111 01001100 1010101 1110001 1110101 111101 011101 110101 110001 1110101 0101101 10100110 100101 110101 1100101 010110 110010 1101 010001 100101 1010101 1100101 100111 1100001 0101111 1101010 1000101 010101 1011001 1010001 100101 01100101 1010111 111110001 1110111 1110110 010001 1010101 110111 011100 0111001 111001 1010101 0010101 1010101 1011001 1010111 10110011 001001001 110101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 173
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, city, in are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word then 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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