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

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a b b cXXXXXX aXXddXX aXXXcXX XXXXXXX e XfbXX Xg XhXiiXX XXcXXhi XXjaXXX kbXXXlX XjcjjXm XXXXXXX fjXjjXX baXXXee XXXXXXX XfhffbX XaXaXXj fXfXXXX b nXnXXXX mXmXXhh XaXXaXX XXXhXXX XahaaXX XXkaXXX XaXaaXX cacaXbX XkXXXXX XXXXXXk XaXXabb oXXXhXX XoXopXi mX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,7,7,7,7,1,5,2,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,3,4,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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000101010010 11100100 111101010 110101001 01101111 11000101010 111011010 1100111101 0101010100 010011110100 010001110100 111110100 0111010010 1001001111 0101110101 110101011 01001111111 11110100101 100111101 1110010001 1111100101 01111101001 1111000101 10101000 110101010 1101010100 1111110001 11001111110 11111001 11110100010 1111001000 1101001011 111101111 11000101010010101 0101101111 11001010101 10110110001 0111010011 1101011101 0110110111 1001011100 1101011001 1000111101 1110010100 111100110 11011100110 1011011111 1111101011 110101010 011001111 1111111101 1001110101 1101110101 1001011111 1100110011 011101111 0110110010 1100011110 111110011 1001011101 1111111011 11111111100 01001110101 1111111110 111011001 111101111 1111011101 1011111111 0101110101 1011110101 111111010 1110111001 101111101 101101111 11110111110 11010110100 0100010111 1010111101 11110111110 1010010101 111111111 1011010110 10011111110 0110101001 1111010111 1111011101 110101011 11011111101 10011111 1111111111 1111011011 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111010111 0100010111 1110100111 11011111010 10010010011 111011100 100101101 1011011110 1100111100 00100101000 1111110101 101111111 1100110101 1110010001 111001101 1011001001 1101010001 1101110110 011010110 011101101 0101110110 1100111101 01110011001 1101010111 1110010010 1101010010 1110100110 1101111101 10010011111 010111111 11011110100 1101111110 1111010100 111100011 010100100 11101110011 1111110110 010111100 11011100001 011000101 0100110110 0101010101 111110101 0101010101 10010101001 111001111 0101110111 0111110110 11010100100 1011011001 1100100100 1110010100 0111110010 1101110010 110101111 1011110110 10101110111 1101100100 0101001110 1110010101 00111101110 10011001 1100111111 1100101010 1101010111 1101010111 111111011 01100101100 1110110100 11110110001 011011100 10101011000 11011100110 11011111110 1101001100 1001110011 011011101 1111110001 1100101101 110110110 1001011001 11010001110 110010111 1101011000 1011110101 1110011100 11001011110 1011010010 11110110100 1101011101 1101100110 1111010011 1111011100 1111110100 0111110101 1111011101 11110111 1101101100 101011011 1100110010 11111001110 110101011 110110011 11100110 101110100 011010111 11100010100 110110001000 011001001 11101111111 11110100110 11101100 0101011010 1100110101 111110011 1101111111 110101101 101110101 1111110011 1111011101 1111011101 11011101001 11111110110 11110101111 11111101110 1001101101 1111100110 11110011001 11000110011 111111111 1111010100 111011101 111001101011 01101110 1101111101 1111110110 11100100101 01010010110 11011011010 1111111111 1001111110 111011101 1111110101 1101111101 1111101101 00011011 11111111 11001101100 11010011000 111001111 011101010110 10011011010 110111011 1111111111 11111110111 110100101010 1111111101 10011110110 11111111000 011110110 110111011 111111011 011101101 101111111 11100001110 011001011 110011111 0100111101 111111110 1111111100 111111110 011010111 0100111110 1110111001 1111110101 0101111010 0101011110 1101010001 1101010101 1111011101 1111110111 1001101011 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  • Amount of stanzas: 89
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 561
  • 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; that, and, thow, of, i, for, in, hir, hem, yow, ye, he, o, alle, this, thyng, ne, ', fro, han, we, to, thou, it, hire, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, thow, that, of, ne, 'i, 'of, for, thou, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, and, but 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, faste, ' are repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase telle connects the lines.

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