This is an analysis of the poem The Canterbury Tales; The Chanouns Yemannes Tale that begins with:

Part 28
PROLOGUE TO THE CHANOUNS YEMANNES TALE... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a a aaXbX XcXdX Xcccd deecc fXeeX gXXcX bXXXX XXXXX XXXXX cXccX ffXXh hXXXX XdXXX XXcXX XXXXX ciigX hjXXX XccXX XXiig gXXXX XcXcX XiiXX XihXX XXkXX hhXXl lXdXX XXXXf XXXhh XXXXX XcXmm XXXXm mnnXX fXggkk a cXje
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 1000101001 01000101001 1101010101 011101011 1101011110 01111011 11001100110 010011111001 111010101 01011110101 0111010101 11110101 1001010110 1101110101 0110010101 0101110101 1111010101 101110110 1111111101 110111001 1111111001 1101110100 0111011101 1111011111 1111011101 011111001 1111010101 101110111 010110100 0101010100 1111111101 1101111010 1111011111 11111110 010001100 010111010 111010011 101101111 11101111100 1101001011 1010110100 11110111010 1111110011 1101111111 1011010111 111101111 011110100 11011110101 110111010 11101010101 1111011111 111111100 111110101 11111100101 1011110101 0110110101 1101111001 0111010111 111100100 1100111010 111101100 100101100 1111100101 1111111111 0101111111 1101010110 101010101 1001101111 111111100 1101111111 1101110010 1101111010 1111010001 111110111 1111010101 1101010110 1011111000 0101010001 1111001110 1101111100 1001010111 010011101 1001011111 0011010110 1011110101 100101101 010110011 1111111100 1101010111 1111111101 111110111 110101111 1001011110 1101000111 1011010001 10011111011 1101110101 1111001000 1111111101 10101111100 1011010111 1001001111 1111111100 1110110111 11100011 1010000111 100101011 11110111011 1011100100 1111110110 11010111010 1111111100 110110000110 101111011 111100101 1011011011 1111011001 1111110 11010110001 1111110101 1101101100 010111100 111000111 111111101 111101011 10011111 1001111101 0101110011 1110011110 1101111101 0101011011 0111010110 1010110010 0101111111 101011100 0101101010 1101111100 1011010110 1101111111 0010010101 1111100101 1111111101 101111011 110110010 111000111010 1111111110 0101011010 11111011110 1101010111 101011010 1110110111 1101011011 1111101111 110101111 110101011011 11011111110 111111011 011111111 1001001111 1111111011 1111111111 111111110 111010011 11111110 0101110011 1100111101 1111011111 1111111101 11001000101001 1001001001001001 01001011010010 01010101011000010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, his, he, for, hadde, ', and, ye, i, al, this, me, it, we, or, thou, my, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, it, for, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tale, ' are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words tale, ', game at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Canterbury Tales; The Chanouns Yemannes Tale;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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