This is an analysis of the poem The Shipman's Tale that begins with:
Listen my masters! I speak naught but truth.
From dawn to dawn they drifted on and on, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXcbXaddccXXbXcaXaXbd be ebcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011111 0101110111 1101010111 1011010111 1101111101 1101101011 1101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1101011001 1100110101 1011010101 1101000101 0101010101 1111110001 0101110101 0111010110 11001111111 0101110111 1100110111 1101001111 11110101011 1111000101 1111110011 1111 110101 1101010011 1111011111 1100110111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; some, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, what are repeated.
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- summary of The Shipman's Tale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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