This is an analysis of the poem The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest that begins with:
There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore,
A widow, somewhat old, and very poor;... full text
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 822,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
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- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 17726
- Average number of words per stanza: 3307
- Amount of lines: 821
- 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; her, she, his, and, to, your, i, with, thou, darest, red, for, of, in, as, he, but, thy, not, image, or, you, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, she, that, how, and, the, or, nor, while, o, some, i, so, when, with are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases red, dreams connect the lines.
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