This is an analysis of the poem Tale I that begins with:

That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare;... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 138,24,21,26,14,12,23,13,16,9,21,7,73,32,51,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010011 1111110001 10010100101 1101110111 0111010101 1101110101 1001010101 0101011101 11010000111 10101110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1100011101 1101011101 0101100101 1101101101 11010111101 1011010101 1101000101 1101010001 1101011101 1111100101 0101110111 1101110110 111010100 1101011101 1111001101 10111100111 111001001 1101111101 01010010101 11110100111 1101110101 1011010101 1101010001 0101011111 0011010110 1111010101 1101010101 0100110101 1101010111 11010101001 1101010110 1011011101 0011011001 1101011101 0100111101 10110110001 0101010101 1111110111 0110010101 00010010101 11010100100 0111010111 0101010111 1101011101001 1101010111 01011100111 11010111010 010101111010 0011010011 1001010101 0111010101 0111010101 1100010001 1111000111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011001 0101110101 1101000110 1101000101 1101001111 110101111101 01011100101 1001010101 1111010111 1101010111 1011011101 1101000101 1100110101 1011010101 1111110101 0101010101 1011110011 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0111110101 1111010101 1101010101 1001100101 1101010011 0101010111 01110000111 1011111101 0101100101 1101011111 1101010110 1111110111 1111110001 101111010 1 10010001000 1101000101 11110110001 0111010101 1101001101 1101111101 1101010101 11111101 10 01011101001 0111111111 11010101110 1111011101 0101000101 1101010111 11111000101 1101010001 1111100101 1110100111 1101010111 1110100101 1111000111 0101010110 1111110110 1101011101 1001111001 1111010110 0101010100 01010101010 1 1101001101 1101010001 1010010101 0111010101 110101110101 1011110011 1 01010101011 0101011101 0111110101 1111110101 1101001111 0111011101 0111111111 1001110111 1101010111 0101011101 0101110111 1011111101 10010001010 1001111101 1101111111 1101011101 1111100101 0101101101 1111010101 1101010101 1100110001 1111010101 1001110101 11110111101 11011101001 110101110111 1101010101 0100011101 1101111110 0101010001 1011011101 0101010101 1101110101 0111011101 1101011110 1001110011 1101011101 1001010101 1100111101 1111110101 1101010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 224
  • Amount of lines: 490
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, to, he, of, by, some, his, be, so, not, i, their, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, he, and, the, they, some, thy, each are repeated.

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  • summary of Tale I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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