This is an analysis of the poem In Imitation Of Chaucer that begins with:

Women ben full of Ragerie,
Yet swinken not sans secresie.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXbXXbbXXXXbbaaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 1101110 11011100 011101100 100101101 01011101 11110101 01110101 10010111 10010101 1111011 11010101 110111101 01011111 11011100 11011101 111100101 01110011 11110101 11011111 11110111 1111111 110101010 111111010 10011111 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 977
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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 are repeated.

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