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

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a a XXXXb bXXcX XXddX XXXXe XXXXX XXXaa XXeXf XXXXX ggXhX XXfii XXjjX XXXaa ccXXX XXckk XbXXX XbbXX XXhXd XcXXg XXXXX lXXmm XdXX a j XXXnd deXXX XXXdg gXXXX XXXlj jddgg aXaXX XkkXX ddXXX XdXXX ggXXk knnoX XXddX XXXdd iiaaX XXXXX iigXX XbXXX aaXXX Xjjff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 10001001 110010001001 1111110101 1110001111 1001010001 111110111 1110110001 01111101111 1101110110 0111110111 11110111101 1111101100 0101010010 1111110010 111101111 1100110101 0111111111 110101101 1011111101 1100111110 1111110111 0111111111 101111111 1101111100 1111110101 101101010 1101010111 01101101110 111100010 111110010 1111011011 1001110011 11010111110 1111111110 1101111101 01101110100 1111010101 111111100 1111111101 0100110110 11110111 110111111 0101100101 1110111011 1011010110 111110111 1101110001 1001011111 110101111 1101110111 1111111111 010110001 1011111010 10111000010 111101011 0111110111 11001010101 100101111 11111000 010111100 1111001101 1001111101 1111110001 1101111101 1110011110 01011010101 1011001010 111111001 0101010101 1111011111 1110011101 1100101001 0101111000 10111101 111110110 11010111000 1011000101 11010100110 1111011001 1111010101 11111111011 11110111111 1111110011 11111110001 010110011 1110111001 0111100111 1101111111 1100010101 0010011110 1101111010 111110001 0010110110 1011011101 111011111 1111010101 11111100100 11111110110 111110110 10111100110 1110100011 1111010001 10110011 0110111001 1111101110 110111101110 01001 110001001001 1101100110 11101010 110110100 0101110110 1110010111 1010010101 11001010101 100111111 1011110010 110101010 010001101 10010110 10010111 1101011111 101101001 1011110110 11001100010 1001111111 1110100100 0101010100 0101110010 110101010 1010011010 01011101010 1101000101 1101000101 10011101001 1101011101 1101100111 11000101001 11111101 100101110 1111110101 1011010011 1101000101 111101101 11111100100 11011110100 1100011111 10111111101 1101100100 11010010101 11010101001 0011010111 1101011010 1100011001 010110111 011101010 011110110 1101100110 1101011110 0101011111 0101101110 1101010100 11111110101 1101111101 1010011110 1100010010 1101110001 1111101110 01010001011 011011110 1101110111 11010101011 1101110101 10001010111 111011100 11001110100 0011001111 010011001 1101111101 111110101 1111011101 1011011111 1100110011 1100110101 111101000 110010100 0111100101 010011111 1101000111 011110101 1110011111 1010111110 111100100100 11010101010 111010011011 111011111100 1011000010 11111011110 1100010101 0101110111 100111010 110101011 010101000 1101001000 011001011 0111010111 1110110110 0110111101 11010000101 10001111110 011011111 1111100010 011110001 0111000010 1101011111 111100100 1001100101 00101010011 10111010 001011110 110110101001 11010010101 1111000110 11010011010 1101110110 11111111110 1110010010 111010110 0111101100 010011010 1101000101 110110110 1101111111 11001100100 110101111 1111111111 1110101110 1101110101 111101110 11110101001 1110111110 1101111110 1011011110 011111001 10101111001 1111111001 011101010 1111011100 11011110001 1011010100 0111101101 111111110 1011111100 111111100 111111110 1111010011 010101000 1101101000 0100011111 11111111110 1111011011 1110011101 1101111010 101110110 111111000110 0101100101 1101001110 0111111101 1001011111 0010101001 110111010 111111011 1111110101 1101111001 101111010 111101100 1011111111 111110100 1001111111 110101101 1100111110 1101011110 110111100 1100010100 110101100 111111100 11001010100 11111100110 1101011101 1110011100 011101000 01111100 1001011101 10101110010 1011111001 100111111 111110111 11101010 110111110 11111001000 1110011111101 1111010010 1111010101 111011111 1101101011 01001111101 1001111110 11111001000 1111111101 1101111111 1001011110 110101101 1001010111 111101111 11101011011 1101011101 1111010010 110011101 1001010011 111111110 110011111 1111011101 1111111111 010101101 110011111 1110010010 101011101 111110111 11111011 11001011101 111011000 0111011000 111110010 1110111111 01010101010 011010111 001011111 111011101 110101010100 1110110100 1101111111 01011101 1010010110 11011001100 111011111 011010110 0100011000 1100111100 1100110110 1111101111 10011010111 0101010010 0101110011 1101010101 1101110111 111110010 1111101111 1111110110 1101011101 1110101111 1001011111 01011011010 1101101101 010001010111 1011100011 11111101010 101001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 79
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 370
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he, thy, ye, and, to, hath, i, ', of, his, in, for, she, so, ne, that, al, o, hym, my, sone, muchel, reed are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, i, for, o, but, my, a, reed are repeated.

    The author used the same words is, but, and, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word tale 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 Maunciples Tale;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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