This is an analysis of the poem Pied Piper Of Hamelin, The that begins with:

A CHILD'S STORY.
(_Written for, and inscribed to, W. M. the Younger._)... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c daeeeaffa X gghghXggiig X aiXijjjghiiXjj X kgkgjjjXllXmmXbgXmmX c bbeejjjjjjnbXjX c kkojjoppbXdlXliieeppgXghgXjj X XkmkmeeeeeiiiggXhhhhhiiXmbamallllhhgggXgXXXXjcXX X kkhhhgggX X ffddXXqqdddddddddaX g eeppjjbbbjX c ddeemX X mjjminiiiiiihhhbb X eecccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,9,1,11,1,14,1,20,1,15,1,28,1,48,1,9,1,19,1,11,1,6,1,17,1,48,1,44,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0110 10110101001010 1 1001010 11010010 01010111 100110101 010011101 1101110 11110001 01011101 0101010 1 1 11011101 110100010 110101001 1101001110 110010101 11011111 11010101 110110 010110 010100111 1 110100010 0011110 1111110010 1111101010 011111010 111111010 110110110 110111101 0100101011 111111010 010100110 111111110 1001011010 1000101010 1 11011010 11010110 1010111011 1110011 010011111 01111101 11011101 11010101 11110111 1010110101 11101011 001010111 10101101 110101110 10111010 1111011100 10101011100 1001001101 101101001 1111101 1 1101011010 100101010 01110101 110101101 11011111 01111101 11111101 11111111 11111110 111100111 111110101 011101010 11011110 101101011 11010010100 1 101001010 1111011010 110010101 110100101 11111111 101111101 1110111 11011101 011111110 110110110 11110101 01011101 0100100111 11011101 101011001010 100100010 010111010 100101110 111110111 01001101 11001101 11010010 001010101 111111010 01111101 011101010 11010101010 000101011010 1 00010101 1010101 10111101 0010101 11010001 010101110 111101110 1010111010 111110110 111011010 10100100100 1010010010100 110010011100 111111101 111111101 11101110 10101010 10111010 10011110 1010101 10010111 010111010 111111010 0111001010 0111110 111111010 10111010 110101110 011101010 1110111001 110110101 11010101 00010101 10100101011 10100100110 1010010111 1010010101 1011001 10111111100 01111101 01010111000 111111110 10101010 1110101010 110110111 100111011 111001111 1101010101 1 1111010010 1001111010 110101111 110111101 010100110 1101111001 0011100101 0010100101 00101111010 1 0101001011 10010101 110101110 010011011 110101010 110101010 01010010010 0010101110 100101000101 1101110101 110110101 111110111 11110101 001001011011 101001001011 111010111 00111011101 0111011110 010101110 1 01011111 11011101 1100101101 1010101 0011101110 1101001010 00101001010 011111010 011111010 111110010 11111001010 1 110101111 10110101 010101010 010111011 110110111 1111111 1 11110001 100101 10110111 11111111 111101010 10100101 110101110100 0101101101100 110100101100 101101101100 11100111100100 1101010 1010111 01011101 110011111 10110110010 010010010110 1 0101110101 1010100101 010010111 0010100101 11010001 110110101 110101101 101010101 101010011 010101010 1001011110 110010101 1010010101 11010101 110101001 110111101 11010101 11111101 111110101 01010101 10010110010 101001101010 1110000101 010010111 01111111 111101001 101000111 01011101 0101111111 11011001 01010111 101010101 11111100101 10011111 11011111 110110101 11011111 0100101111 111011111 11011111 110010101 11110101 111101001 01011111 11111101 1010110 01110101 1101011010 1 01011100 1100100101 01111101 1000111101 1010110100 010111111 0100101101 0100111011 101100110 0110010111 11010011 1111101010 11011001110 1100111010 111011010 0100100111 11011101 111101101 101010001 111011001 1010010001 010010101 11001101 11011011110 11101001011 1101100110 010101110 1100010010 110101010 110111010 010101010 111001001 110100101 11110101 101010101 010010101 0010111 11110111 01101101010 101100010 00110100 110100101 1010010101 111111101 1 1101111010 011011010010 110111111111 011001111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 320
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, trap, of, or, as, rats, with, to are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rats is repeated).

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