This is an analysis of the poem The Monks Of Catalonia that begins with:

TO you, my friends, allow me to detail,
The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddee ffddgghh bbddbbee eeccddcc ggffccXdffddXcddiiddcX ddaahh ddaaff eeccjjbbiicchhiiddccffii eebbbbkkllffee cchhmmbbcccchhddii nnddhhddccbbbbdXcc ffiiiihhnnjjooddiiffdd bbbbbbbbccddhh ccbbccddeekk ddjjccddaagg bbbbeeddXhhbbbbnnccccee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,8,22,6,6,24,14,18,18,22,14,12,12,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111011001 0101010001 1101010101 1111000111 11011110101 1101110111 1100110001 1101011101 0101010011 1001010101 1001010111 1111010101 0101110101 0101010011 1100110001 0101010001 0111010101 1111010101 1010111101 110110111 0101010101 0101111101 01010110001 1101010101 1111110001 0111010101 0101010101 1010011111 0101011101 1101100011 1100010001 0101110101 0101011101 1111000001 0101011101 0101011101 0111110111 1111010101 01110001011 11010011101 10001010101 1101010101 1001001101 10011010001 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 01010011010 0111010011 1100011101 11010101001 1101010001 1101110001 11010101101 1101010101 1101000101 1101110010 1101111101 1101111101 11010010001 10101010101 1101111101 1101011101 1111011101 1101011001 1101010101 01010010001 11101010111 1100110101 0101010110 0100010101 11001010101 1101110001 1111011101 0111011101 1111010001 1101000101 1101010101 11001100101 1101110101 010111011 1101110101 1101000101 1111010101 0101110101 1111011101 0110110111 1101111101 1111110101 01010101101 1101010111 0101011101 110010101 0101010001 01011101011 01010101010 11010111010 0101010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110111 0101110101 1111010001 11011101001 1111010011 1101110001 1111011111 1101011101 1101011001 0100110001 01100100101 1101010101 1100010101 1100011101 1101110101 0101100101 1111010111 1101000001 0101111101 10001101011 01110101 01110001 1100110101 0101110101 0100010111 1100011101 1101100001 01011110101 1100010111 1100010111 0101011101 1101010001 1101111101 01100100010 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110010 1011011101 01010110011 1111010101 1101010101 110001010101 1010001101 1110110111 0101011100 1111010101 0101011111 0111010111 1111010101 11010000101 0101010111 1101010101 0101000101 1100111101 1101010001 110011111 1101010011 11111100111 1101011101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010111 11000110011 1101011101 10010100101 1101000101 1100110101 1111111101 0101011101 0101010101 01001010101 0111010101 1101001111 1101011111 0111010101 11001110101 0101010101 0100010101 1101010001 11011101001 01011001111 11011100101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1100100111 1101000101 1001000101 1101111101 0101001101 1101001101 1101010111 1001010101 1101010101 10010010101 0101011111 0101010101 0111010011 0111010101 11010101001 1101010101 1101010111 01001010111 1101111011 1111011101 0101100101 1101010101 0101010101 0100011001 0101010001 1001110101 1101011101 1111001111 11011010101 1101001101 1101000101 1101110101 1100100101 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and, you, i, what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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