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

King Solomon, before his palace gate
At evening, on the pavement tessellate... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaabXccddeeXX XXXcffeX ggXdaaaaXebXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100010101 1101010100 1100010001 01010101101 010101011 1100010100 1111010101 0011000111 1001111001 0111010101 1001000111 1011110101 0101101101 00110100110 0111011111 000101110 10011011101 1011011111 1101110111 110101101 11110101001 1001111101 0111010101 1001110111 1101010100 1010010101 01010110001 1101011101 1101011111 0101010001 010101001100 0101111101 1101010101 0101010100 11110100001 11011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; of, me, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 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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