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

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a a XXXXX XXbcc ddXXX XXXaa XeXcf feXXX XgXdX bgXXb XXbXc XbXXX bbXXX XXXXX XXXXX XbgXX XXXXX XXXXX hXXgi iXXXX ccjkX XXXXX XglXX XXfXX XXXXX XXXlX XX gXf ffXXi XXXXb XiXXX XXldf fXlXX XmcXa aXXbb mXcea aXcXX ccXXa aXlcX XbgXX XXXXa XXXgX XXcnn fXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,2,3,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 01001 11001001 111101010 01111100 1001010100 1101010110 010101101 1101110101 110101001 10010011111 11010100100 1001011100 111111110 111111010 1111111100 1001111111 111111111 100101101 1001111111 010110100 1110010100 1101010100 01110100100 11111110110 100111111 1111110111 1111010101 1110010011 111111010 11011111100 110111011 010111111 011101110 111111011 110110110 110101010 0101011101 111111010 110111101 100100011 101100111 010111011 01011101100 100111100 1101110111 111100100 011001100 011000110 0101010101 0111010010 110110111 1101110011 110001011 011110101 1111110111 1001010100 100110101000 10011100100 011101010 1010101111 111111010 1101110111 10110101000 111111110 11111010 110101001 10110101110 100100100 1101010100 0111111111 1011001101 11011111 0101110001 111000111 1101010100 111001101100 10110101000 01010101110 101111110 110111010 110110011 1101010110 11000101101 01110111111 0101001110 0100011011 1101010101 1101101111 1111101110 1101011110 1111010010 1101011111 0110100100 0101100100 1101110110 1111000111 100101110 1110101100 1101100110 1111000100 111011111 0111110110 1001011100 01110011101 100110111 1111100110 0101110110 1110110110 1011010101 10011000111 110001010 1111011100 11011111001 10111111 11111101010 11101110 1100010101 1100011010 010100100 0101011001 0101001101 100110010 1111010011 110010110 1110011101 0101100111 1111011011 100110101 111101001 1010110011 111011101 100100011 1111001111 010001011 11011111111 1111110101 111101111 1001011001 1111111101 11010101101 111110000 1110011001 1111110111 0110010111 011111001 11100110 101111101 111001011 1101110111 111101011 110111100 110111010 100101100 1111010100 110111100 0111110 1101100110 11011001100 0100010101 01111110 0100101111 1110110101 0111101010 1111100100 1101001101 011110111 111010011 1111010101 011101100 1011110011 110111010 1101111100 0110100010 1111100010 1111111101 1111111110 1001010101 111011011 0100011111 1111101011 101110100 11011100 100110110 1010100101 1101101111 1111110101 1111110111 1101110111 1101011111 1001110111 11110100110 1011010001 1001010110 110001011 1111001101 11110001001 1011110100 0111111 1110110100 110100111 1110010101 1111001111 1111111011 01110101100 110101100 110001010 111011010 1001010010 1111111001 111001101 100111101 0111011110 010110101 1110010110 1011100111 1011010111 1111101111 1101100010 010011001 111010011 1111010110 11010101100 110111111 101111110 11010010 1111100110 1111111101 1101110011 101101001 1111010001 1111011110 1111010101 110110101 101111111 0101111101 0101101101 11110111 0111011100 110110111 1111010111 1110100101 110110101 1010011110 1101111110 1111110101 0101011000 1011111010 1101110010 1101101101 1001111101 1111011101 10111101010 101111111 10011111 101110111 11001100111 1101110101 1001110010 1111010100 11010111010 1101111011 1110010101 010111111 110101100 0110101001 1100010100 1011001010 1101111100 111001011 1110010110 1111101100 110110010 1101010101 11100001 111111111 11010110100 01000100111 1010000100 1111111010 1111111111 01011101101 01010110 010110110 1111101111 10110111010 11111110100 101110101 100101101 11001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 62
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 291
  • 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; of, and, or, i, as, in, with, han, ye, that, for, he, hir, this, his, my, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, that, for, hir are repeated.

    The author used the same words of, 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 tale is repeated).

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

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