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

THE WIDOW'S TALE.
To Farmer Moss, in Langar Vale, came down,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeddffffffggffbbccbbhhbbiiddbbj ffeebbgghhX cXb jjbbkkccfflleXXcbbbXffmX mmffbbiijjiXddnnmXhheehXX mmaaccddffmmbbnneeddnXhhhddffl mmddffeejjbXhhaaddccaaaadd kXnneejXeeiioooollcXbm bjXccdXccaaabbXhiiddffcciihhddmmhhXieXccddmmppeeffffffbbddhhffXjhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,37,11,3,24,25,30,26,22,77,2,2,7,40,21,49,7,7,55,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101 0101010111 0101000101 0101011111 0101110101 1011010101 0101010101 1011010101 0101011101 1101011101 1111010101 1001010101 1101110101 01100010101 1001010111 01010101001 1101010101 1101011101 0100010101 1111010101 1011010001 0101011101 0101110111 1001010101 11001010111 10111101001 1111111101 1111100101 10111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1110010101 0011001011 1101010101 1101001101 111111110 1 1111111111 01100110101 10100110011 1001011101 1101010101 01001111101 1111111101 1101010111 0101100101 110111110 1 0101111101 100101111 1 0101010111 1111010101 1101111111 1001000101 0101111101 0101010101 1101000101 11010101101 1101000101 10011101010 111101001010 1011010111 0111111110 1111110101 1111010101 1011010101 0111111101 1111111101 1101011101 0101010101 0101111101 0101011111 10111101 01 011101010001 11010101010 11100111010 10101011101 1001010101 0101111101 10110110001 11001111111 1111010011 1011010001 11110101110 1101110111 0101010111 0101111111 0110011101 1011010001 11011101010 1101010101 1111010101 1111100111 1001010011 1101110101 0111011101 11011101 01 1001110101 1101111111 11111101001 1101110101 0111010101 0111010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1011000101 1101010101 0111010111 11010010101 1101011001 1101011101 1101110001 0111110101 1011110101 1111011101 1111010101 0101111111 1111011101 111101111111 1101010111 1101001101 0101010101 1101011101 1111111100 1 0111001101 1111001101 11001010101 1111111011 1111000101 1111010111 1011110001 10011101110 101101010010 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110100 10011011101 1111010101 0110010001 1111011101 1110111111 1111010101 1101011101 0100010111 1111010101 0101110001 1101110101 110100101111 1111111101 1111010110 1011110101 1101110001 10010010111 11111001001 11010100111 01010110010 1101011011 1111011001 1111010101 0011010101 1101111101 01011010101 01001011101 1011110101 11010101010 11011101010 11110010101 1101111111 1011011111 0111010010 1 11111101001 1001110110 1001110111 1101110101 1111110111 0111000101 0101011111 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 010101110100 01001110101 0101010101 0101010110 1101011101 1101010111 11010011001 101100101001 1101010111 1011110101 1101010101 1011111101 1111110101 1011010101 0101010101 1001000111 1101010101 1111010101 0101011001 1111111001 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110010 1101111111 1101011101 11010111100 1101110101 1101011101 1111000101 0101010111 1111111111 1101110101 0111111111 1111010101 1101010001 0111110111 1011010101 1101110101 1101000101 1111110101 0010010101 0111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1101000101 1111011111 1101010101 1101111101 110100100101 1111000110 1111010001 0101110111 1101011100 1101011101 11010010101 1011000101 1001010101 1100010101 0111101101 1111010101 1101110101 1001100101 10010101001 110101011 1 0101011110 1 1101011111 01 1011011101 1101011101 01110011101 1111011101 1100010111 110101011 1 0101010101 1101011101 1101001111 1110010001 1101010011 1011010101 1011010101 1011010011 11010110111 0111011101 1101010101 1001011111 1011110001 1111110001 0111011101 1001010101 1001010101 1101110111 0111010101 0101110101 1101111101 0101010100 1101110101 1111010101 11011100001 1111001101 1101010101 1001000101 1101100101 10010010101 0101011101 1101011001 1101010101 11010001001 1101110101 00110101001 1101010101 1111010101 110111111 1 10101010111 1101011101 0101110101 0101000101 1111000101 1111010101 0101010110 1101010101 1011110001 0011011001 0111010111 1101011101 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 1101111101 1101011001 11010101010 11110001010 111111001 1 0101010101 1111011101 1101010111 1111010111 1111110101 1111010111 1101110101 1111110110 0101010101 1111111101 1101011101 1011110101 1111110011 1101010001 1101110101 1101111101 1111111101 01010010101 1111001101 1111111101 1110011101 01010110001 1101110101 10111100101 1001011101 11011111001 1001010101 1111110101 11110001010 0111000111 1111110101 10100101001 1001010101 0101111100 11010100011 1101011101 1011011101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1001110001 0111010101 1101000101 1101001101 1101011101 0101110111 11110111110 0101111011 1 1101010101 11110111111 1111010101 11011001001 11010111110 01010110100 1 1101110101 1101010110 0101011101 1111111001 1111111111 1011001011 1 0101110001 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 11011111100 1101110001 01001001111 1101000101 0101010101 1110000101 11010011101 1111001111 1001001101 1001000101 0101110111 1101011111 10101010101 0101000101 1101010101 1011010100 1111110101 1001110101 1111011101 1111011101 1111110001 0101010001 1111011101 1101110101 1101110101 11110101110 0101100101 0100111101 1111010001 0111101101 11011100001 0011011101 0111011101 1111010101 1111111001 0101101101 10010111001 1111010001 1111110101 1111000101 1111110101 1111110011 0111010111 1101010111 1101111101 0101011101 111110111 1011010001 111010111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 999
  • Average number of words per stanza: 184
  • Amount of lines: 447
  • 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; to, and, your, be, you, i, my, we, it, ', our, in, his, she, of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, nor, when, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word last at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word at at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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