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

THE WAGER.
Counter and Clubb were men in trade, whose pains,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeeffbbggffhhffiiXhbXb ffiiiiihhaabbbbhXbbhhjjffkahhllb hhbbaaddllaaffbbllggbbddjjaXi bbjjaabXhhaaccXfllaXiiaaaaiXmmaan aaXhhbbbbkaggeeaabbfXoolXbbfXaagXhhhhggf Xh dpXeeffkkbbhhookXbbcciijjfXhhbbhhbbjjhhhhbb bbbiiddkkao ajjhXXXccbbdXfXgXn aXeeddb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,29,32,29,33,40,2,43,11,18,47,10,14,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 1011010111 1011010101 101100100101 1011011101 1111110101 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 11110010101 1011010111 1101110101 11110011101 1001000111 1111101101 1111110011 1101111101 1101010100 1001111101 1001110001 10011101001 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101111110 1110010101 1111001101 1101110101 110111011 1 0101010111 1011010101 1101011101 110110110101 0101011101 1011010101 0101111101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101001101 0111011101 1111010101 0111000101 11011100100 1011010101 1111010101 0101010001 1011111101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 11010100101 1111010001 1011010101 1001111101 1101010111 1001111101 101111011 1 1101111110 1011010101 1111010101 0101010111 0101000101 0111011111 1001110001 1101010101 1101101101 1001110101 1111000101 1011011101 1101011111 1101011001 1101001101 01010101001 1100110111 1111010111 0101111101 1101111111 0011010101 1101011111 0111011001 11011010101 11010001111 1111111101 11111101110 01110101 01 11010000111 10010100101 1011110001 1111110111 01011100001 1011010111 11010110101 0101001101 00110001001 11010010101 0101011111 1111110101 1101110001 1101011111 11111010101 0101011101 01001100101 1111111101 1101001101 1101000101 1101010101 0111000101 0111011101 0101111011 1111011101 1101110101 11111101100 1101010111 01111101001 1011010101 1101010101 1111111100 1 1111110101 110101111000 0101010001 1101110101 1101111111 1101010101 0101010101 0101011100 01111101001 11111100101 1011000101 0001110101 1011110111 1111010101 1111010111 1111010111 1101010101 1110110101 1011110101 01110111100 11011101011 1101010011 1101101101 11010101110 1111011101 1111110101 1111010101 1111110111 1010010111 1001111101 1111011101 1001110101 0101010101 0101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 10001101001 111101011 10 11111101 01 1100111101 1011010101 1101010001 11100111101 1011011101 0101110111 0111011101 1111110101 1100110101 1101011101 11111100101 1101110111 1101011101 1101111001 1111111001 11011101010 1101010101 1101000101 0101000101 1111011111 1111010101 1101110111 1101101101 11111010101 1111011101 11110010110 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011111 1011010101 1011000101 0111010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101111101 1101011111 0101110111 0101010111 1101110101 1011010101 001111111 1 0101010101 1101010101 1101011111 0111010111 1111011111 0101110111 1111011101 0111010101 0111010101 110111011 1 1101010101 1101010111 0110110101 0111011110 1111111111 1011111001 11010111101 1111011111 1101011101 1101111101 1111001101 11011101110 1101111111 1001111101 1101100111 1101111110 110111010 1 1101110101 1111000101 1101111111 10011101001 1101011101 0111110111 0111001101 0101010101 110011100101 1101111111 11101010011 1101010101 0111001101 1011010101 1101000101 1111111001 11010100101 1101110100 0011110101 0101110101 0011010101 1111010101 0101011101 1111110101 0111011101 1001001101 1111010011 0101001101 11011001111 1111011101 0111110001 1101111101 11001001001 1101011101 0101110111 1011110101 0101110101 1101010101 0111010111 1111111101 1001010101 0001110101 1111011101 1111010101 11111100010 1011111110 1001010101 1111110101 1101111101 1101110111 0111110101 1111011101 0101010101 1101111101 11001110101 10110101110 1 1011110001 1111110101 1101111111 1111010101 1111100111 1101011101 1101011101 0101010101 1111011101 1101101001 1111110101 11001000101 1110011101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 944
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 311
  • 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, in, men, to, her, she, my, he, i, his, ', your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, that, the, she, more are repeated.

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

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