This is an analysis of the poem The Cook's Tale that begins with:
THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake,
For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the back:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccdXeddafebbX gddddccccXXXgXXhijhXe k hgXXXXXXjjffXfbblXjjcchbleXXemkagc dXjjXjddXjmjXXibXdkgdXlX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,21,1,34,24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1111111101 101111010 010101010 010100010010 111000010 11110010011 1100110100 1101100100011101 1111000100 11010111011 01011110111 110101010110 11010100011 1101111111 1110101001 010111011 10111111011 0101110110 1110111101 1011111000 11001011101 11001010111 11011111 01001011101 1011011101 1111001101 10111100111 1111010111 1111101111100110 0111110111 1111110111 1111110101 1111010111 0111111011100 1111001100110 1100101101 11111111010100 1100011111 1101111101 01 0101010110 1001010011 1011111001101 11010010110 010111100100 1111111100 111110100 1111011100 1001010101 110110111 11001011111 1101010101 1111010101 100110111 1111110111 111111101 110101001100010 011111110 1111101011010 0101010101 100111110 110110101 1101110011111101000 0010010100111101 1101010010101 1100110111 1100010100 1101101100 0101000110101 111110010011 11110100100 111111011001110 1011100101 10111111111100 0101000101 11111001000 10111101101 1011010010 1101010110 0101110101 001011011 1001010101 1101110100 1101010010 00111011111 111101000101 1101011010 1111010110 1101010101010 111101011101 11101101010 11010101011 0111111111 1011011001 100100010111 111110110 110111110010100 0111010100100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 893
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, thy, he, his, they, it, him, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and, for are repeated.
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