This is an analysis of the poem The Canterbury Tales; The Shipmannes Tale that begins with:
Part 8
PROLOGUE TO THE SHIPMANNES TALE... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a XX XXX XbbXX XbccX XXXXX cXdXX aXXXX Xa a XeXX X dX XfXXX XXdXf XeggX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,3,5,5,5,5,5,2,1,4,1,2,5,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 10001001 1100101011110 010001 11010100110 11111001000 0101011010 110101111010 1101111101 11111110101 110110100 0101101000 110011100010 1110110011 11010001011 1101111001 10110110 111101000 0101110110 111011111 101011111 11110101111 1101001111 11101100 110100111 110111010 110101011 11110111001 111101010 101110100 11101110101 11110100110 1100100011110 110001 01 11010101000100 100110110110010 1101101001001010 10 11 1001100010010 1001010 11110100111 11111101 1101010100 1101010111 011100110101 011001111 1001011110 1011011010 111110111110 111110101 01010101111 1100101101 11010111 111111111 111011101 011010111 11110011010 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; ', he, ye are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', tale 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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More information about poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Analysis of The Canterbury Tales; The Prioresses Tale
- Analysis of The Canterbury Tales; The Clerkes Tale (A)
- Analysis of Chaucer's Tale Of Meliboeus
