This is an analysis of the poem Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, Book I [Excerpt] that begins with:
In days of old there lived, of mighty fame,
A valiant Prince, and Theseus was his name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddaabbbeefffffccgX hhiiXcfffhhhccbbeeeeffggjjeekXccelmmcckkggjjffeljjcceeffjjjjelbXccbb hhgghhggjjbbeebbggnnhhgXooelffppccccbbjXff ccbbbb ffffbbaabbngffcXffggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,68,42,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 0101110101 0111010101 0101010110 0101111111 1101010001 01000100111 1111110111 1101010101 01010101001 0100011101 0101110101 10010010101 1111111101 1111110101 1001111101 0101010101 0101011101 0101111101 011101001001 0100100001 1111010101 0111010111 1111011110 0101010101 0101010101 0100110001 01011010111 11001001010 1101110111 1111011111 1111011101 1101011101 1111111001 0101010111 0101010001 0111010101 000111001001 1001111001 10110010101 1101010111 1111010101 1001110101 1111111111 1011011111 0101010101 101110101111 101010010101 0001001101 01110011001 1101111101 0111010111 1111010101 11011101110 0100010101 0111010111 11010110101 10101111100 11110010001 1111010101 1101011101 1011000101 1111010111 011101110101 1101111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101111100 1111101101 1101010111 1111000101 1001010100 110010101101 01001110101 1101110101 0101001101 1111100101 1101110001 0111110101 0111011101001 1111010101 0101011101 010101001001 1101011101 0110010111 1011110100 1111010101 10110101110 1011010101 10011100101 0111010101 1001001101 0111010101 1101011101 1111111101 1101110001 1100010111 1101110101 0101110011 1101110111 11001010001 11111110011 1111011101 110110101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1011010101 1101010101 11011111010 11011101010 10011010101 1011110101 1101010101 0101010100 01010101001 1011001110 1111010101 01010010100 11111101001 1101000101 0110011111 110101111 1101110101 1101011101 1001010101 0100110101 1011011011 1101011001 1101011101 1101110100 11011100001 1011010101 110101111 1101110101 0101110101 0101010101 1101000101 0101011101 1001010101 110111010101 0101110111 010011010100 1111010111 1100010101 1101011111 1111110001 1111011101 1101010100101 1101110110 1111010101 01001110101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010100 0111010101 1101010101 110111101 1001011100001 1001010101 01010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1437
- Average number of words per stanza: 262
- Amount of lines: 162
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, he, with, their, and, to, his, my, thy, we, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with, the, and, or 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.
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- summary of Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, Book I [Excerpt];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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