This is an analysis of the poem The Canterbury Tales; The Milleres Tale that begins with:
PROLOGUE TO THE MILLERES TALE
Heere folwen the wordes bitwene the Hoost and the Millere... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X XX XXXXa aXXXa bbXXc XXadd XeXef fXXXX XXXXX XffXX XXXXX XgXXX XXXXh XdXXX XXXXX XaaXX Xiggf f aXchci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001001 11001010011010 1101110110 010111111111 111110101010 1101010010 1100101000 111111111 01101000001 11111110101 1100010110 1101110111 1001001010 0101110111 1110010111 11100101111 1110111010 1010011101 111111111 1101011010 01111101010 111111101 1110101110 1111111010 1011110100 11010111111 1111110111 1110110101 1101110101 1101010111 111101000 1111110111 1100111011 1001010111 1111010101 1001001001 11011101010 011011111 101101010 000111011 01001011101 1101010011 1110010101 011011110 11110100 1111101100 1111101111 101110101 11001011011 11001101011 110100111 1101101111 1111010011 10111110 1100111101 111011111 1101101000 010101001 111110101 00100101100 111111010 1101011110 1101010010 1101111001 11010010111 1101101111 01010111110 11101111 1101010110 1101110110 11001110101 111110111 0101110100 111001100 1011011110 0100011110 110111011 11011011 1001111101 11111101001 01 110111001000100 01101100110001 10100010001010 10110011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 86
- 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; and, ', i, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 oon is repeated).
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