This is an analysis of the poem St.Gregory's Guest that begins with:
A TALE for Roman guides to tell
To careless, sight-worn travellers still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dddX ebeb fXfX ghgX ffff Xifi bhbX afaf haha chchXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 010111001 11010101 010010101 11010111 01010101 10111001 00110101 10110111 00110111 01011101 011110110 01111101 010011101 01101101 10110100 100111001 11110110 01011101 10110001 11110101 11010101 11110101 011011110 01110101 101110001 10110101 11110101 11111101 10011101 010100001 11010101 111111011 1001010010 11010011 1001101010 111101001 00110101 11110101 11011101 01110011 11111001 1001011001 11100101 11000101 01010111 11010101 01010110 01011111 01011111 11110100 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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