This is an analysis of the poem The Canterbury Tales; The Reves Tale that begins with:
PROLOGUE TO THE REVES TALE
The prologe of the Reves Tale.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a bbXXc XdXdd eXffX XgXXe XXXXh XXXXX XXXih hXXXh XXXXX XddXX XXXXX cXXjX XXXXX X kXjh X a a llXXX XXbeX kkXlX XhhXe mmXmX Xggnn Xeiij XXXXX d gX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,4,1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100011 0100011 111101011 010011100 011100011 110111111 11101111111 1001010001 1011010001 0101000110 110111001 1111111111 0100011001 01111010 1111111111 11011100110 011101110 11010101110 1011111100 111010101 10010010101 11111111 1101011101 1101110111 10111101001 011111011 1101111101 1110011001 1111111111 1011010110 1101111110 100110100 111010101 111011010 11111110101 1111100101 1100110011 1111011001 1100111110 1101011101 1101110110 1110110001 0101110101 010111111 010011011 0111100100 1111110100 1101110101 111100101 1111100101 010101101 1001010101 111111101 1100100111 11001100101 0011110100 1101010001 111111111 1110110101 1100001101 0110110110 1110010100 1000011111 1111111110 1001010111 11010111 111011101 100101111010 10011010010011 100111110100 11010101110010 01011111111110 11 0100011 0100011 010101011 1111111101 11111110 010101100 0101000100 111000010 111110010011 1100110100 1101100100 110100010 1101111111 010111101 1101011010 1101010001 11101111 110011101 010111011 11111111011 0101110110 1110111101 1111011000 1100110101 11001010101 11011111 01001010101 10110011101 1111001101 1011010011 1111010111 1111101111 0111110111 1111110111 1111110101 1111010111 01110110010 1111001100 1100111101 1011101101 110111111 1101111101 01010 10010010100110 10100100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 118
- 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, we, be, oure, his, in, i, hastow, many, thy, ', pley, sooth, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, lo, but, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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, chymbe, heere 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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