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

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a a bbXXX XXXXX XbXXX XccXd XXcXa aXXXX cXXXe eXXdd ffXXX XbXXX aXXXX XXXXX XXddX XXXXX XXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 1000101 11001000101 11010101110 0110111010 111111011 011110101 1001011111 11001110111 11111111 011111100 011100100 100101000 111010110 1101010101 1111111101 100111010 10011001000 110111111 0101101101 1111110101 1010011100 1101111101 1100101100 1111100100 1101011111 01101111111 11001111101 10011110011 1100110111 1101110110 110101011010 01011001100 1101011011 111101010 1001110100 1101011100 1111011011 1111010111 1111011101 10011010 1111111100 1111110100 111010111 1101110101 111111111 11111111101 1100111111 111101101 0111011111 110101111 01101001 0110100100 110100010 1011001011 1001111111 111011111 110001000 110110100 010111110 11110101 101101000 11110100 0101111001 1111001101 010011010 1101111100 111111011 111010111 111010111 111111110 11111111010 1011110010 101111000 110101110 110110101 1011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, for, i, and, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tale is 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 Persouns Tale;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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