This is an analysis of the poem The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged that begins with:
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;
An awful, reverend, and religious man.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdceebbccfgfhhffiieejjkkklleehhffgfccjjaahhccccffhhccmmbbeeXeaacchhfffhheehheeaaeehhnnhhhaafXddaabbeeffhhhhaaahhbbffccnnjjeekkhhccaaXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 140,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101100101 11010010101 0101010001 1100011001 11011001011 1111010100 1111011001 0100111111 0101111111 0101010101 1111010100 1101110001 1101110101 1001110101 1101110100 1101110101 0100010111 1101110101 1101010101 11010010001 1101011111 01010100101 1101111101 0111011101 1101010001 110101110111 11010101101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111011111 1000101010101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1111010101 10110100100 11000100101 1101011101 0101011101 01001010111 1101110111 01010111001 11001010101 0101010011 1111110001 01110100101 1101010001 1001011101 01010010101 1101110101 0101011111 1111110001 0101001101 1011110101 1001000101 1111110001 1101010001 1101011001 0111110101 1111110101 0101010001 1011010110 01000111001 1000110101 1101110111 1111010001 1101010101 0101100001 11001100011 1101011111 1001010101 1101010101 0111010011 1001010101 0101110101 0101000111 1011010111 1111010111 1111110101 01010110101 1101010101 0101001101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010111 0101010001 0101100101 1101000101 1001110001 1101110101 1101110101 0111100101 0101110111 1101111101 110111010 11110101010 1101110010 0101010101 011101010101 11011101001 0101010101 1101010101 1011100101 01011101001 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 0111010101 1111110101 1101010101 0111111001 010101110101 10110011101 1101010101 0101011100 11010010101 1111010011 1101011101 0101011111 01110110101 1110110111 1111000101 1001111101 11000010001 1101010111 1101000101 1101010001 1101011101011 0111010101 1101000101 1111110001 011111110001 1110010101 1111010101 01000010110 0111010100 0100110111 111111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6171
- Average number of words per stanza: 1115
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, to, he, and, but, of, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, and are repeated.
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