This is an analysis of the poem Chaucer's Tale Of Sir Thopas that begins with:
WHEN said was this miracle, every man
As sober* was, that wonder was to see, *serious ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeff cbXXbbb gXghifX X j jcbkjX cebecX aXlaal XXXaXX fmXXfg XXnXXn eeggXg jjfjja kaXkhm eXfeef iiegig lbjbbX XbfXbj cljaooX XaeajXgaXg XXgabgbXcX XemXXfceea jjiXbX kkmXka eejeXj aliXXX akXaag aajokj mXjXXj ggXggg bcbaaX bbgeegg Xje j ceXcck dXXXXc g
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,1,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,10,10,10,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,3,1,6,6,6,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001001 1101110101100 1111010101110 1111110111011 111111111 1101110111 1101011111 101111100 1111110111 100101011111 0001001110 1101011101 11010101001001 1101111100 1111110111 1101011110 10111110100101 1101101111 10011111001 1101111111 1101110111 011 0111 10100001 1101110010 0110100110 1001111110 01010100 011110 11110110 01010101 11001001 01010111 11110110 1011011 11010101 110111001 010111 01011001010 11110010 110101 01011110 10010110 0101000 01000101 0110100 1110010 1111011 111101101010 0111111 100110010 010011101 1101111 110010101 1111110 100101 11111110 11100101 1100111 11010101 1111111 110111 110101110 1001010011 011101 1110110 01010011 11111 1111111 1101111011 100101010 1110111 0100101000100 11001101 11000101 10001111 1101010 01010011 01010100100101 110101 0111101 0110101 111111 11010110 1111011 1111011101 011001001 11011111 01011 11011101 1101011 111010101010 11111011 0101110 111010 1110100 11011110 01111 111011 1111110010 1110111 111011110100 10011100 1000111 01 11010101 10111111 1111111 000101110 1110111 111101 111111011 111001011 010010 11 10110111 1011111 10111 1111011 0111100 0100101 1111100111 1011101101 101111 01 1001010 01111100 100010 011111101 0100111 111110 1111111111 11100100 10011101 1110 111011 10010101 1111011 11010111 0101111 100111 1101110 11011101 1101101 11010011 10010100 11101110 111001111 1010111 010101 01010101 0111111 110111 00100101 11001100 011111 11011110010 11010111010 100110 0010101001 01101000 110110 1111011 11100100101 11010001011 01011111 11001110 01010101 111011111 0101111110 011101 1101110010 11011100101 110001 11010110110 11110101100 110101 11010110110 111001011 0111011 01110111 10110101 01001101 11111111 11010101 011001 0100010011 01010100 0101011 010101011 0101011 110100 0110110 11011101 011111 011111 01110001 110011 01 11011001 01010100 0100111 0101 11111100 111101 11001111 01010100 011111100 101011 11001001101 01110100 0101111 011011100 11101101 010100 0111101 110101111 1101011 01011101 1011001011 110101101 111101100100 1110011 1100011 0111010101 11110010111 010110 01110001 100111001 110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 234
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', i, of, and, in, his, he, me, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, the, of are repeated.
The author used the same words the, sir, his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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