This is an analysis of the poem The Friar's Tale that begins with:

This worthy limitour, this noble Frere,
He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeefcddggccgghhijXkllXdleXXXXaX k gdiXXcXbfgXmlgiXnnooii hXpkmXhaiij ja XkkX ahXmmjdilbbbkdghhqmralXmooohXXmXmrXll ddXXhhiXoXXhXXllXdggarcdjlaXbXXd nXnnlsXdgXdddcinXdkkcbffrXXmXbXdaliXXXkk kknndqmmX XldlgiiftmmdnXXoXXXggdeaadjbXjjilffmmoolliilsiiXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,1,22,11,2,4,37,32,40,9,115,33,35,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101000101 1111010101100 0101011100100 1101110111 1101111001 1011111101 1111111101 0110011000 111111111 111111101 1101110101 1101000101 0101011010 1001100100 1010010101 11111101 1001011001 11110101010101 0100010111 01001100011100 10111100101 11111111011010 11001010101 0100101101 1111110101 1101011111 1111101011 11111101001111 111110110 00000100100 1010111111 111011101 1100111001 1111110101 01 10111001101101 1100010101 110001010 010001000 0100110100 0101010100 01110100100 0111010100 1101001010110 1101100101 0100110010 1101001101 1110011011 1110011110101 0101011001 1110011001 111011100 1101010001 1101010001 1100010001 111101010 100110010 1101010001 011110100 1100110101000 1111101101 111010111 011011101 11010101011001 0101001011 110101010 110111010 11101110111 101001000101 101011101101 10101010000 111111101 111110101101 111110101 011010101 1111010001 1101010100 1111010111 1101011101 100100100010 1101111011 01011111111 101000101100 1110110101 1101010101 11111010111 1111011011 1101110111 01011101011101 110111101 0111010101 1111010101 1101110111 1111110100 1110110001 1001110101 111101100 1001010011 110111011101 1111111111 1111011011 11111001011 1111111110 1011010101 11000010101 1001011101 110110011 110101011010 1110010100 1111010101 1110111001 1101110101 0101010101 1101001011100 1001111101 1101110111 0110100101 0111110111 1101010001110 01010101011 110101111000 100111100010 10101100111 101011101 010101111 111111101 011010101 110011010 1111010111 111110111 1111010101 111110101101 11010111010 1110010010 010101011 11010101111 11111010011 0111010011 11011111100 110101011111 100101011 1001101111 010011111 01011111010100 11010011001011 110100011001 1011101110 0101011111110 010110011 1011100110 1111111111 110111111101 101111101 1101010111 111111101 1110010111 1100111100 1110111111 1111101110110 1111011111 1111101011 1111010101 1100111111 1101011100100 1110010100 111101011 1011111011 10111110010 0101111110 1111011100 11010101111 11101101 100011011101 1111010100 110100111 1101011110011 1011001101101 10110111 11111010011100 1011111111 1110111110 101010011 0101010101 1011111111 1101110001 1111011100 0111011101 11001010111111101 11110101011101 010110101 111111011 000101101 110101000111 11010010101 1101011111 1110100101 011100110011 1100111111 1111011111 110111110101 111011111 1111011111 0011011001 0101001011 111111111110 1101011111 01011111010 1111110111 11010111010 1101011010 110011110 101111101 010110011 1111110001 10010100110111 1101110001 1101110111 0101111101 11110110101 1011010100 1100101000 111101010 0101101010 101111110 011101100010 101111111 1001010101 1011111011 1011111101 0001111101 1010110101 0101110101 11010110101 111001010 000100010 0101011101 11011111111 1010110101 100110110 101010111 1111010100 111110110 0110001101 0111101101 011001101 1111001111 100100010 1101110111 1111010100111001 11111110111 111001110101001 1110001101 11110101011 1111110100 100101001010101 10110111011111 1101011111110 110110001 100111011 1101011101 1101010111 110111001 1111010100 1101101110 11111101010 100110001 11111001101011 1111111011111 111111111 101100111110 11011100010 1101010111 101111111 1111000101 010101110111 110111101 1101011101 110111011 01011111011 1111111101 0111111011 110011010101 1111110110011 01011101111 0101111101 110111111101010 11001100010010 101101011110 1011110101 10101111011 1111110101101 110101110011 0010011111 1110011101100 11010111111 01010010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101011111 11111101111 1111110111 1011100110 1101011111 1111110110 01111111010 1111100110 11110010100 1111111001 0100010101 10111111101 1111110101 1101010000 101100111011 1101000110 1111001111 1111110010 1111101001 010110101 11111110111 11111101101 1101011000 111110111 11011110101 11010111001 0100111001 0100010101 1111110101 110111111101110 11011111001 1111111111 1101110011 1111010110 1101111000 01111110101 1101011011 10001110101 111101111110 1101010111 111111100 111001111010 100011110110 110111011110 011111101 11111000111 1111111111 11100111111100 111111111 010111110110 1011111111 1111110111 110101111 111110101 1111011010 111111100 111111010 1011111011 1010110111 11011101101 1001011101 1111011110 110101011 0101110010 1100110101 0010010111 110111111111 111111011001 11110111011 101010101 1101111101 11111111001 1101010111 1101010111 110101101 111100110010 1101001000 1011011111 1011100101 1101011100 1111010010 101111111 1101000101 1011111101 1111010101 1001011111 10110101001 11011101100101 010111110101 1111010101 010111011 110110111 1111110001 1110010100 1001011001 01010001101011 0101000111 1001110010 011111111 111111011 11001100111 1110110101 00011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 403
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; him, of, and, to, his, or, that, he, ', this, thee, i, full, not, my, ye, have, like, in, on, thou, we, which, as, her, me, quoth are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, a, my, thou, the, to, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' 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 words/phrases he, for connect the lines.

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