This is an analysis of the poem The Muleteer that begins with:

THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;
The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbeeff ggaaXaaag gddddhhgg aaggii jjggkXccggbbhh Xcggllcciiaa aajjeedd aahhmmgg hhaahhhX aaddaaggnn hhaaaacX llggooddddaaggaa hhgg cckkoooo aaddggpp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,9,9,6,14,12,8,8,8,10,8,16,4,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 0011100111 1001010111 1000110101 0111011111 1110011101 1101011001 1101010111 1100010101 11010010101 1101000110 1101010001 011100101010 11011101010 0100110001 10010010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101110110 0101011101 1101010011 0101110101 1101110101 1111010101 10001001101 0101010111 1101000111 1101011001 0101110001 01010011010 00101100101 11110101001 0101000101 1001011001 0101010001 1101110101 0101010111 0101100101 0101011101 1110010101 01010101001 0100110101 01110100111 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 11010000101 1101110101 0101000101 0101010101 01010100111 1101010100 1111010101 1101110101 1001010101 0101010101 0101111101 0101111111 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1111001101 1101110101 0111110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0100001111 0001110101 1101111101 01100001001 0101000111 1101010101 0101010101 1101001101 11110101001 1101010101 0011010101 1101011101 0101010001 01011101011 0101010001 0101010101 0101010001 1101110101 0101011001 01011101010 1101110101 1110010101 1101011011 1111111001 1101110011 1101011010 111010111 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 1100010101 0100011001 1001011101 0101010101 100010011101 0100110100 1101010101 0101100101 1111001110 1101110111 1101110111 1001010101 0101010101 1101000101 0110010101 1101010101 1100010101 1111100001 01001010101 1111000111 0110010111 1101011101 1101110111 0101011101 0111110110 1111010111 0110010001 0111010101 0101110001 1100010101 0101100101 1101010101 1100011101 0101010101 1101011101 0111000101 1101010111 1100111101 0111010111 1111010101 1111010111 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Muleteer;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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